sufficiency
IPA: sʌfˈɪʃʌnsi
noun
- (uncountable) The quality or condition of being sufficient.
- (countable) An adequate amount.
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Examples of "sufficiency" in Sentences
- Sufficiency is the inverse of necessity.
- The water in the bottle is in sufficiency.
- My goodness ... self sufficiency is maybe possible?
- The whole idea of "self sufficiency" is fraught with peril.
- Otoh, the more sophisticated humans become the less self-sufficiency is an applicable idea.
- I'd argue the only route to self sufficiency for the individual is self sufficiency from the state.
- If these funds are used primarily for economic development then, for the first time, economic self-sufficiency is possible.
- IBBS: Well, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, AASHTO, has what they call a sufficiency rating index.
- They illustrate, however, that even where self-sufficiency is possible, it is apt to involve the serious drawback of greatly increased cost.
- Do not misunderstand me: my reference to potential net energy self-sufficiency is not an assertion that we will be self-sufficient in conventional sweet crude oil in this decade.
- My frustration with talk of "self-sufficiency" is that we're in an economy that is facing an oxymoronic jobless recovery, when official unemployment is at 10 percent in places doing well and unofficial unemployment -- when you take into account those who have stopped looking for work or those caught up in the war on drugs on account of the dearth of good jobs -- is through the roof.
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