verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a satisfied customer (=who is pleased with your goods or service)
▪ Satisfied customers will retun again and again.
fulfil/satisfy sb's expectationsformal (= be as good as someone hoped or expected)
▪ The band failed to fulfil the fans' expectations.
meet/satisfy demand (=supply as much as people need or want)
▪ There are reports that the company cannot produce enough to meet demand.
meet/satisfy/fulfil a condition (=do what has been agreed)
▪ In order to get a state pension, you must satisfy certain conditions.
meet/satisfy/fulfil the criteria
▪ Does your experience meet the criteria for the job?
satisfy an urge (=do want you feel you want to do)
▪ He satisfied his urge to travel by going to India.
satisfy sb's curiosity (=find out something that you want to know)
▪ I decided to call him in order to satisfy my curiosity.
satisfy/fulfil a desire
▪ Companies aim to satisfy people's desire for variety.
satisfy/fulfil a requirementformal (= meet them)
▪ Our aim is to satisfy our customers’ requirements.
suit/satisfy/appeal to sb’s tastes (=provide what someone likes)
▪ We have music to suit every taste.
▪ The magazine caters for all tastes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
completely
▪ Never sign anything until you are completely satisfied with every detail.
▪ Again, although deceptively simple in outward appearance, this salad satisfied completely with its subtle flavorings.
▪ No single product completely satisfies these requirements so the use of any particular agent is always a compromise.
▪ Then, when he was completely satisfied, he spoke to Hal over the radio circuit.
▪ If you are not completely satisfied, return it within 30 days for replacement or refund.
▪ I was not completely satisfied with these responses.
▪ Lamentably, none is completely satisfying.
entirely
▪ And as with all our offers we guarantee to refund your money if you're not entirely satisfied with your order.
▪ Clinton has been too protean to entirely satisfy either.
▪ But she wasn't entirely satisfied.
▪ The children themselves, 75 she continues, can be entirely satisfied.
▪ A similar structure would not entirely satisfy the Panel.
▪ And yet, am I entirely satisfied with my lot?
▪ She has said she will not give a penny until she is entirely satisfied the unit will go ahead as planned.
fully
▪ There was nothing particularly creditable in giving up an immoral life when you had fully satisfied that nagging curiosity.
▪ It can not fully satisfy both.
more
▪ Barrow's book is, to my mind, more satisfying, not just because he covers more ground.
▪ Neonatologist Susan Dulkerian says the technique makes the babies calmer and appear more satisfied.
▪ It may be argued that the longer people search for jobs, the more satisfied they will be with their eventual choices.
▪ And, in the process, we can make the practice of law more satisfying and more fun.
▪ Daily we deal out our own justice in small ways that are more satisfying.
▪ In the long run, such methods may well be both cheaper for employers and more satisfying for employees.
▪ Patients in the x-ray group tended to be more satisfied with their care, however.
▪ There, people who chose low-fat restaurant meals were more satisfied than people who chose higher-fat foods in the same restaurants.
most
▪ His most satisfying role in television came with Question Time, 1979-89.
▪ He knew the sort of people he was addressing and he knew the sort of moral objections they found most satisfying.
▪ In many ways it should have been the most satisfying celebration of his years in public office.
▪ Some of my most satisfying work at Arky, Freed was done on behalf of Eastern Airlines flight attendants.
▪ Granted, watching without a plan, without a real show in mind, is not the most satisfying way to go.
never
▪ Does it not mean that preparers of accounts and auditors can never satisfy the market's reasonable expectations?
▪ At some point Rudi seemed to have accepted the fact that he would never satisfy his intellectual ambitions.
▪ But they can never satisfy desire.
▪ Aegisthus, of course, must die, but to kill him alone would never satisfy justice.
▪ She now knew that he could never satisfy her, but was not prepared to dislike him just for that.
▪ But saucer enthusiasts, it seems, are never satisfied.
▪ It never satisfied the White Paper's interest in another, shorter, flexible model of higher education.
▪ The money the family receives from the manufacturer for the wrongful death of a child will never satisfy them.
quite
▪ Despite it, I am quite satisfied that their evenings, their sleep and their general comfort were greatly disturbed.
▪ In the long run, I was quite satisfied, but only through my own endeavors.
▪ No-one moved until she had quite satisfied herself.
▪ Though Ferris' explanations are not quite satisfying, the questions are well worth trying to understand.
▪ Big Ron was never quite satisfied.
▪ It was quite satisfying to see them working their way up that hill.
very
▪ That means the customer gets the goods while still enthusiastic - and is very satisfied.
▪ It's merely guesswork and an abstract computation, not very satisfying.
▪ Looking at herself in the mirror, she was very satisfied.
▪ Overall, 54 percent are very satisfied, and an additional 36 percent are somewhat satisfied with their jobs.
▪ Purists might call it chiming rather than genuine ringing but Saint Mary's has some very satisfied customers.
▪ The initial research on Meurent is very satisfying.
▪ I am a 13 years old Andre Agassi fanatic who is very satisfied with the newsletters, and great photos.
▪ Only four in 10 blue-collar, clerical and sales workers are very satisfied.
■ NOUN
appetite
▪ Nestled within these bleak volcanic highlands are fertile valleys filled with game plentiful enough to satisfy even the appetites of dragons.
▪ The government is not some sinister monster gobbling up taxpayers' money simply to satisfy its own insatiable appetite.
▪ However, it will be unlikely that you could produce enough to satisfy the appetites of the Tangs on a continuous basis.
▪ First, there was the clear risk that particularization would feed rather than satisfy the appetite for further self-determination.
▪ Flake will not satisfy the appetite or requirements of a 10in Oscar.
▪ Obviously this would have some realistic effect in satisfying the appetite.
▪ These are designed to whet rather than satisfy the appetite - but short bibliographies help would-be students to delve further.
▪ I've started reading your column in the Sunday Express but that won't satisfy my insatiable appetite for your peerless wit.
condition
▪ The parties will work to satisfy the closing conditions and launch the joint venture in the first quarter of 2000.
▪ However, to get any basic pension you must satisfy two conditions.
▪ It is convenient to consider separately in this chapter a number of other exact solutions that satisfy this same condition.
▪ It satisfies the five conditions on a metric.
▪ It is sufficient for the existence of a solution that the production function satisfies the Inada conditions and that.
▪ For our parse, we can choose the largest which satisfies this condition.
▪ They contain impulsive wave components, and therefore do not satisfy the conditions of Tipler's theorem.
court
▪ Such a description might well be enough to satisfy the court.
▪ But even these tests may be difficult to satisfy unless the courts are again prepared to be flexible.
criteria
▪ Female animal, on the other hand, comes close to satisfying the criteria.
▪ C., that it has satisfied 14 competition criteria spelled out by Congress in the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996.
▪ This solution must satisfy specific criteria of outcome viability.
▪ For instance, we assume he would satisfy our behavioural criteria for being some one who knows the meaning of the word bank.
▪ If a local authority seeks a care order in respect of a supervised child it must apply under s31 and satisfy the relevant criteria.
▪ He must adduce sufficient evidence to satisfy the statutory criteria for the making of a particular order.
▪ Recruitment into the trials depended on patients satisfying the entry criteria and giving their informed consent.
curiosity
▪ If this is true, it seems an expensive way of satisfying one's curiosity.
▪ Some came to seek the new power, some to chuckle, others to satisfy their curiosity.
▪ Foucard had once gone to that door, thrown it wide, given the room an all-embracing glance, satisfied his curiosity.
▪ You still haven't satisfied my curiosity.
▪ We too need to read the Bible in our hearts, rather than simply to discover facts or satisfy our curiosity.
▪ If you want to satisfy your curiosity about Bob's girlfriend, you ring him yourself.
▪ At least he had satisfied his curiosity.
▪ This seemed to satisfy the boy's curiosity.
customer
▪ Each individual uses the product of another supplier and his/her output has to satisfy a customer.
▪ Hence they tend to satisfy their customers while wasting far less.
▪ Purists might call it chiming rather than genuine ringing but Saint Mary's has some very satisfied customers.
▪ A happy and satisfied customer would tell five other people about the company.
▪ Fifteen separate routes have been made the responsibility of managers whose chief aim is to satisfy their customers.
▪ The desired outcome of most services, after all, is a satisfied customer.
▪ Employees at Yahoo! constantly experiment to improve their site and so satisfy more customers.
demand
▪ The consequence was that very few Yugoslav enterprises were established mainly to satisfy export demand.
▪ Minnebraker started manufacturing trikes to satisfy the demands of his aircraft parts business.
▪ The extension of the informal conciliatory system will not satisfy the demand for an investigative system.
▪ He needed to create junk bonds to satisfy the demand for them.
▪ Exacerbated by drought, water abstraction has increased by 70 percent over the past three years to satisfy consumer demand.
▪ To satisfy the demands of wealthier parishioners for more comfort during the often lengthy sermons, pews with cushions began to proliferate.
▪ But at Rediscovering Pompeii there are enough screens to satisfy demand, and a technician is in regular attendance.
▪ Schools have to attempt to satisfy the conflicting demands of a whole range of individuals and groups.
desire
▪ It may well be that, throughout our careers we are motivated by the desire to satisfy different needs. 2.
▪ If we are at the bottom of the organisation we may be motivated by the desire to satisfy physiological needs.
▪ So when you become a woman, desire can never be satisfied, understanding never reached and escape never ever made.
▪ He can not understand that he is waiting only a matter of moments before his desire will be satisfied.
▪ The bottled woman arouses desire but does not satisfy it a function similar to modern advertising.
hunger
▪ Food, in our society, is used for many reasons other than simply to satisfy hunger.
▪ For example, boiled potatoes satisfied hunger seven times better than croissants.
▪ Perhaps the cat was killing to satisfy hunger.
▪ I had eaten four or five slices of bread without satisfying my hunger, so I reached for still another slice.
▪ Is it slowly savoured and really enjoyed, a splendid taste to satisfy the hunger pangs?
▪ When the others had satisfied their hunger he led the attack.
need
▪ At each stage of their individual development, a number of men stop and grow no further because their needs are satisfied.
▪ Thoughtful attention to needs of people for satisfying relationships leads to a comfortable, friendly organization atmosphere and work tempo.
▪ That need is most frequently satisfied by recourse to a nut or three.
▪ Only needs not yet satisfied can influence behavior; an adequately fulfilled need is not a motivator.
▪ Choice-the need to satisfy the wants and needs arising from socio-economic and demographic change.
▪ With the hen Jack could be content, since now all physical needs are permanently satisfied.
▪ If companies are going to prosper when economic conditions improve, how should these information needs be satisfied?
reasonableness
▪ The burden of proving that a clause satisfies the reasonableness test is on the party who seeks to rely on the clause.
▪ In other cases, liability can be excluded or restricted provided that the term satisfies a test of reasonableness.
requirement
▪ Next year one will be able to satisfy one's requirement by visiting Disneyland, Paris.
▪ We have found that a single hidden layer node per about 50 input nodes will satisfy our requirements in imaging applications.
▪ Much of what had seemed useless except for satisfying formal requirements, was now vital and important in the teaching situation.
▪ The examination is a collection of questions and individually a question goes some way to satisfying the requirements of the examination.
▪ A specification for the computer system which will satisfy the user's requirements begins to evolve.
▪ The variety is enormous but many can be ruled out in not satisfying all the requirements.
▪ Beyond satisfying those requirements no specific grouping of subjects is stipulated.
▪ Flake will not satisfy the appetite or requirements of a 10in Oscar.
taste
▪ Is that enough to satisfy your taste for living?
▪ His works satisfied public taste perhaps better than anything else available at the time.
▪ Classes to satisfy nearly every taste and interest are available.
test
▪ The burden of proving that a clause satisfies the reasonableness test is on the party who seeks to rely on the clause.
▪ In other cases, liability can be excluded or restricted provided that the term satisfies a test of reasonableness.
▪ The Vienna Sales Convention prescribes two alternative methods of satisfying the connection test.
■ VERB
fail
▪ Microwave oven danger list fails to satisfy critics.
▪ That alarmed the conservationists while failing to satisfy the engineers.
▪ New prototypes have so far failed to satisfy him.
▪ The presidential decision failed to satisfy either the originators of the law or its main critics.
▪ But even that failed to satisfy the council and, last week, a grovelling apology had to be broadcast.
▪ But it failed to satisfy opposition leaders, who announced they would continue their protests until all their demands are met.
▪ Schools will therefore be liable to lose pupils and funds if they fail to satisfy parents.
▪ They call for more research, and dismiss study after study which fails to satisfy them.
seem
▪ Cuthbert's oblique reference to Aldfrith in his reply seems to have satisfied her.
▪ Local officials sometimes complained about adverse decisions and strings attached to the grant but generally seemed satisfied.
▪ The customers seem to be satisfied already.
▪ But saucer enthusiasts, it seems, are never satisfied.
▪ Much of what had seemed useless except for satisfying formal requirements, was now vital and important in the teaching situation.
▪ The latter seems to satisfy them because it still gives them a little information they so desperately crave.
▪ This symbolic gesture seemed to satisfy them.
▪ That explanation seemed to satisfy plaintiffs attorneys.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(are you) satisfied?
▪ I'm here now - are you satisfied?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A compromise was eventually reached, but even this failed to satisfy environmentalists.
▪ Applicants will have to satisfy the committee that they are suitable for the job.
▪ Her explanation failed to satisfy the jury.
▪ I tried on dozens of wedding dresses before I found one that satisfied me.
▪ The changes I made seemed to satisfy Cooley.
▪ The cheapest products satisfy only minimum safety requirements.
▪ The police said that they were satisfied with his story and let him go free.
▪ What numbers will satisfy the equation 2x + 3 >13?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In addition more detailed information is obtained on occasion in order to satisfy the needs of adhoc detailed projects.
▪ We've already satisfied ourselves that it was an accident.
▪ When the others had satisfied their hunger he led the attack.