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SATISFICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does satisfice mean?
• SATISFICE (verb)
The verb SATISFICE has 1 sense:
1. decide on and pursue a course of action satisfying the minimum requirements to achieve a goal
Familiarity information: SATISFICE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they satisfice ... he / she / it satisfices
Past simple: satisficed
Past participle: satisficed
-ing form: satisficing
Past simple: satisficed
Past participle: satisficed
-ing form: satisficing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Decide on and pursue a course of action satisfying the minimum requirements to achieve a goal
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
satisfice; satisfise
Context example:
optimization requires processes that are more complex than those needed to merely satisfice
Hypernyms (to "satisfice" is one way to...):
act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
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