adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a satisfactory/adequate explanation (=one that explains something completely)
▪ A bank must offer an adequate explanation of all its charges.
adequate protection
▪ Some car seats for children did not provide adequate protection.
adequate/proper precautions
▪ Companies have a legal responsibility to take adequate precautions against fire.
adequate/proper preparation
▪ You cannot go on a dangerous trip like this without adequate preparation.
adequate/proper supervision
▪ Why had the parents not provided adequate supervision?
an adequate supply
▪ The larger cities usually have more modern health facilities and an adequate supply of medicines.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
barely
▪ They were clumsy to use, the striking surface barely adequate.
▪ But no one could suppose that the result could be more than barely adequate.
▪ They were barely adequate, but to tell the truth there was not much worth lighting up.
▪ Instead, he wrote a barely adequate, undistinguished letter.
more
▪ He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm.
▪ The severe limiting of the category would be pragmatic as well in securing more adequate medical insurance coverage.
▪ This in turn will provide a more adequate basis for the formulation of relevant policy.
▪ It is, rather, the context in which more adequate explanation can occur, or at least be attempted.
▪ Such a position is not just a correction of Kant but a fundamental rejection in favor of another and more adequate criterion.
▪ The houses should be repaired and modernised; proper plumbing should be installed, and more adequate heating.
▪ However, such questions must be asked if we hope to develop a more adequate policy in relation to doping in sport.
perfectly
▪ However, lower your aural sights a little and £200 - £300 will get you a perfectly adequate operator.
▪ The rest will be moved on to a perfectly adequate out-of-town portal site with ads that flash and jitter.
▪ Other requirements: Light: Appreciates good light from above and all round, though light from above is perfectly adequate.
▪ It is possible to subscribe to an updating service, but adopting your own scheme is perfectly adequate and is not expensive.
▪ The address book is an odd addition, given that the database is perfectly adequate for fulfilling this need.
▪ Boot space is perfectly adequate quite shallow but long.
▪ This can make the conventional approach perfectly adequate for some systems development work.
▪ Ardmore's runway is more generously dimensioned and better levelled than North Shore's but North Shore is perfectly adequate too.
quite
▪ Your first effort may well look like a rag doll, but this is quite adequate to begin with.
▪ In the developed western countries private resources and the capital market were quite adequate.
▪ The existing arrangements of asking for police assistance when the presence of weapons is suspected are considered to be quite adequate.
▪ Although the data collected were quite adequate for this purpose, no attempt was made to claim representativeness for the doorstep survey.
▪ The researchers estimated Diatryma's athletic ability as quite adequate to catch most of the contemporary mammals.
▪ I believe that that is quite adequate.
▪ However, the detailed cross-referencing is usually quite adequate to take care of such problems.
■ NOUN
account
▪ It is, I think, one of two parts of an adequate account of causal asymmetry.
▪ Anything like an adequate account of the method of empirical inquiry is out of the question here.
▪ Can the background view be held on its own as an adequate account of causation?
explanation
▪ It is very hard to provide a simple but adequate explanation.
▪ The analyst must be sensitive to possible environmental effects when attempting to provide an adequate explanation for a particular political behavior.
▪ Nor is economic failure an adequate explanation.
▪ It is, rather, the context in which more adequate explanation can occur, or at least be attempted.
▪ But is this an adequate explanation?
▪ As a result, there is rarely the time to provide adequate explanations as to why a particular step is carried out.
▪ However, other data presented here suggest that this is not an adequate explanation.
food
▪ Others are dining, on the cautious assumption that a nine o'clock party might not provide adequate food.
▪ Each family was perennially engaged in securing an adequate food supply for its members.
▪ Regular feeding with a general fertiliser will help to ensure that the plants are always supplied with adequate food materials.
▪ One 63-year-old freed prisoner revealed that captives were kept in metal cages without sanitation or adequate food.
▪ The latter, he argues, can only be accomplished if an adequate food supply is produced within a ecologically sustainable system.
income
▪ Unemployment does not only deny an adequate income, it can create deep crises of social identity.
▪ This put him on two public payrolls, the county and the state, and assured him of an adequate income.
▪ The other is to find well-paid employment which will provide her with an adequate income to afford the repayments.
information
▪ It is important to appropriately balance these risks on the basis of adequate information.
▪ The first point is that you can't make a meaningful choice of subjects without adequate information.
level
▪ The scheme for parents would have to start with a really adequate level of child benefits.
▪ To continue the previous example, suppose that 500 units was determined to be an adequate level of safety stock.
▪ Questions about adequate levels of safety on the roads or in factories, or about purity in foods are of this kind.
▪ They will have failed to maintain an adequate level of expectation about what life can be as non-parents.
preparation
▪ Preparation and follow-up To get full value from a visit, adequate preparation and follow-up are vital.
▪ The importance of adequate preparation can not be overemphasized in view of the substantial delays and costs that could arise through error.
▪ However, this is more surely an argument for adequate preparation than for a refusal to appear.
▪ In either case adequate preparation should be made, so that the relevant facts and estimates are in a presentable state.
▪ Jimmy Carter's limited experience in politics had not given him adequate preparation for the demands of the White House.
▪ It is open, voluntary, not embarked upon lightly or without adequate preparation.
protection
▪ They should be clamped in reasonably dry conditions with adequate protection against frost.
▪ Most universities have some review committee that requires a statement from the researcher that adequate protection will be guaranteed for all respondents.
▪ Men involved in the upper reaches of political life might not necessarily find in it an adequate protection.
▪ Federal safety experts say such helmets appear to offer adequate protection for skaters.
▪ He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm.
▪ Three days later, however, President Nixon ordered that the reconnaissance missions be resumed and that they receive adequate protection.
▪ The court is able to give adequate protection to solicitors' clients without straining the language of section 69.
▪ The General Accounting Office reports that airbags do not provide adequate protection for small children and others not sitting in normal position.
provision
▪ All major publicly-funded housing developments will make adequate provision for the less well off.
▪ Peace of mind, adequate provision for family and friends, and the knowledge that one's wishes will be carried out.
▪ Management considers that adequate provision has been made for any liability which may arise in respect of the years 1981 to 1983.
▪ The need for the adequate provision of permanent residential homes increases substantially as the mentally handicapped child grows up.
▪ The Rules do contain adequate provisions for appeal by the person upon whom a notice is served.
▪ There is a gross disparity between the size of the unemployment problem and the minuscule educational resources available to make adequate provision.
supply
▪ But, as disappointed abolitionists in the country reported, adequate supply remained crucial.
▪ It also is working to ensure an adequate supply of modems too, from Motorola and others.
▪ Basically, if you follow the suggestions we have made earlier, you will obtain adequate supplies of vitamins and minerals.
▪ While saying this I do not want to exaggerate the lack of adequate supplies of goodwill.
▪ Encouragement and real results are the essential ingredients required to nurture adequate supplies of willpower and to keep it growing.
▪ The restrictions in outdoor water use were approved last week to help maintain adequate supplies during the shutdown.
▪ Others represented yet more heroes and champions, of which the disc had a more than adequate supply.
support
▪ If Britain is to maintain its tradition of excellent clinical research adequate support must be provided for the clinical costs of research.
▪ By fitting one central bar, three-point cramping is possible, catering for irregular shapes, while still providing adequate support.
▪ Welfare and social services Recent research has demonstrated that people with severe mental handicaps can undertake productive work, with adequate support.
▪ It's important that the sling is easy to put on single-handed, and that your baby gets adequate support.
▪ Doors of the hatch can be hinged or sliding, or even a lift-down flap, as long as it's got adequate support.
▪ Dividing one room into two is not a difficult operation, and simple studding can provide adequate support for sheet plasterboard.
system
▪ The implication drawn from the trade is that modern corporations lack an adequate system of accountability.
▪ Ensure that an adequate system for taking backup files is established and maintained.
▪ Any manager who fails to devise adequate systems for job control is at best not in control and at worst out of control.
▪ Likewise, for those caring for an adult the scheme would have to be built on an adequate system of disability benefits.
▪ It can not be stressed enough that an adequate system for financial control must be a priority matter for the haulier.
time
▪ Set aside adequate time for thought and planning.
▪ The importance of the results should be such that there is adequate time to seek opinions from employees. 2.
▪ If adequate time has been spent at the design stage, the construction of files holds few major problems.
▪ We are also indebted to the Minister and the Whips for allowing us adequate time in which to adduce our arguments.
▪ They also criticised the lack of adequate time for consultation.
▪ We will want to give adequate time to them to share their experiences and insights.
▪ This period of grace has in normal market conditions given the house owner adequate time in which to find a buyer.
▪ First, all overlap periods must allow adequate time for exchange of information between the staff coming to duty and those leaving.
training
▪ Employees should also be given adequate training in safety precautions etc.
▪ The first problem is that many young doctors do not get an adequate training.
▪ The report also emphasized the need for adequate training and supervision of personnel working in this area.
▪ There is no substitute for adequate training, instruction and supervision.
▪ This involves: Installing a written system for checking temperatures, plus adequate training and instruction on the system for staff.
▪ Apart from recruitment the greatest problem most armies faced was that of giving adequate training to their officers.
▪ Are staff given adequate training to enable them to undertake recruitment activities?
▪ It is unfair, however, to expect nurses to take on this new role and responsibility without adequate training and supervision.
understanding
▪ The creditor would not be concerned with the question whether or not the surety had an adequate understanding of the transaction.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Employers must provide adequate training opportunities.
▪ Hardin's campaign did not have adequate funds to broadcast any ads on television.
▪ Make sure that the lighting is adequate so that your guests to see what they are eating.
▪ Most people eat an adequate diet.
▪ None of his workers received adequate safety training.
▪ Now that we have extended the hall, those small electric heaters are no longer adequate.
▪ Redman's performance was adequate, though it lacked originality.
▪ The heating system would only be adequate for a much smaller house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Nevertheless, it is still open to question whether these arrangements are an adequate substitute for parliamentary scrutiny.
▪ She gives accounts of the long hours worked by women and the effort put into maintaining what were seen as adequate standards.
▪ The minerals in a normal diet will be adequate to replace any losses.
▪ The retail business, which is essential for the maintenance of adequate market liquidity, declined after the 1987 stock market crash.
▪ There is often no provision made, or considered adequate for elderly relatives without causing gross inconvenience to all parties.
▪ Winter may seem like the ideal time to do interior painting, but it requires adequate ventilation.
▪ Yet, without a ground and adequate pitch, the sport was unlikely to flourish.