satisficing
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A decision-making approach that settles for an outcome that is good enough rather than searching exhaustively for the optimal one.
Under time pressure, the committee resorted to satisficing, approving the first vendor that met the minimum requirements.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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