satisfice
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
To settle for an option that is good enough rather than searching for the optimum.
Overwhelmed by two hundred applications, the recruiter began to satisfice, stopping at the first candidate who cleared every box.
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