In a sentence
Six example sentences with adequacy, each labelled with its topic.
Inspectors questioned the adequacy of a single stairwell for a building meant to hold four hundred people.
Architecture
Nurses test the adequacy of pain relief every four hours, raising the dose when a patient still cannot sleep.
Medicine
Drought planners doubt the adequacy of the reservoir, which now supplies less than half of what the city draws.
Environment
Regulators test the capital adequacy of every bank each year, asking whether its reserves could survive a sharp downturn.
Finance
The appeal turned on the adequacy of the notice, since a letter sent to an old address gave the tenant no real warning.
Law
Reviewers questioned the adequacy of a sample of twelve mice for a claim about an entire species.
Science
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- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
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