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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
substandard
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ substandard accommodation
▪ substandard medical care
▪ More money should be spent on the improvement of substandard housing.
▪ Most household goods sold here are substandard, but food is plentiful and cheap.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He also targeted the childcare industry, promising to step up inspection of the 40 percent of local facilities he called substandard.
▪ He estimated that half had been receiving substandard care.
▪ He says they're substandard and unfit to be lived in.
▪ Literally hundreds of thousands of children are taught in substandard buildings.
▪ Many of the tenants lived in substandard adobe apartments, some with backyard outhouses.
▪ The inspectors said that when pupils did reach the expectations of their teachers, they were often still substandard.
▪ The number of homes sold to median-to-high income earners rose while neighbourhood representatives expressed concern over the concentration of substandard property.
▪ There were two options if these tests showed that the concrete was substandard.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
substandard

also sub-standard, 1909, from sub- + standard (adj.).

Wiktionary
substandard

a. Of inferior quality; not meeting the minimum quality requirements.

WordNet
substandard

  1. adj. falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing" [syn: deficient, inferior]

  2. used of merchandise

Usage examples of "substandard".

In the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 Congress not only prohibits interstate commerce in goods produced by substandard labor, but it directly forbids, with penalties, the employment of labor in industrial production for interstate commerce on other than certain prescribed terms.

Peter Tatakis, the chiropractor, arrived in his wine-dark Buick, and Bart Skiotis paid his respects at the church whose foundation he had laid with substandard materials.

No big nasty pervert has dumped nineteen people on a substandard planet just to dispose of one time-lagged ex-Jonah medic.

There'd been a time when Hoskins Tower's plumbing would have been fixed within dayswhen the discovery that the bureaucrats in charge of its construction had used substandard materials and evaded building codes throughout the massive structure in order to pocket enormous profits would have led to indictments and prison time.

There'd been a time when Hoskins Towers plumbing would have been fixed within dayswhen the discovery that the bureaucrats in charge of its construction had used substandard materials and evaded building codes throughout the massive structure in order to pocket enormous profits would have led to indictments and prison time.

There'd been a time when Hoskins Tower's plumbing would have been fixed within days -- when the discovery that the bureaucrats in charge of its construction had used substandard materials and evaded building codes throughout the massive structure in order to pocket enormous profits would have led to indictments and prison time.

Within the substandard construction of the Charlevoix church, literally upon a shaky foundation, I was baptized into the Orthodox faith.

I could be of great help in Army Intelligence, and my substandard hearing and heart murmur wouldn’.

I could be of great help in Army Intelligence, and my substandard hearing and heart murmur wouldn 't matter in such a post.

Or if the bridges or viaducts are constructed with cheap or substandard materials or labor?