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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suitability
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
assess
▪ In both instances, it is important that the candidate is assessed thoroughly to ensure suitability.
▪ Interested families are then assessed for suitability.
▪ At Sellafield and Dounreay, drilling is being carried out to assess the suitability of the geological strata of the areas.
▪ The next day he even drove us out to some local farms in his Land Rover to assess their suitability.
▪ International group Children come from all over the world and are observed and assessed for their suitability for Conductive Education.
▪ In assessing the suitability of any credit insurance underwriter, companies must be satisfied with a number of key issues.
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▪ A classroom or school library-based test is often the only method of ensuring the suitability of software.
▪ An extended family placement has been used, but with minimal investigation of it suitability and minimal support to the carer.
▪ And even before doing this it can examine the firms already registered with it for suitability.
▪ At Sellafield and Dounreay, drilling is being carried out to assess the suitability of the geological strata of the areas.
▪ But maybe I was hasty about Roy and Hayley's suitability to adopt.
▪ They will be talking to local people, organisations and authorities and writing a report on the route's suitability for upgrading.
▪ We can offer advice on suitability and make appropriate arrangements where possible.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suitability

Suitability \Suit`a*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
suitability

1680s, from suitable + -ity.

Wiktionary
suitability

n. The quality of being suitable.

WordNet
suitability

n. the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose; "an important requirement is suitability for long trips" [syn: suitableness] [ant: unsuitability, unsuitability]

Usage examples of "suitability".

So the hat should be the crowning glory of a costume, the center of interest, and should receive the most careful attention as to becomingness, suitability, and workmanship.

To ascertain the suitability of the Fioneriska rock formations for the storage of radio nuclides with decay half-lives in excess of one million years, as suggested, further deep drilling operations would be required.

In discerning the suitability of the Teutonic legend for this purpose Marlowe showed a far truer understanding of what tragedy should be, of the superior terrors of moral over material downfall, than he displayed in his more successful later tragedy.

At the time he enters the country, at the time he applies for permission to acquire the full status of citizenship, and during the intervening years, he can be subjected to searching investigations as to conduct and suitability for citizenship.

Highest in general suitability, probably, are clay loams underlaid with a moderately porous clay subsoil.

The effectiveness of the rocket attack against the Danish flagship Christiania was due more to the intrepidity of Captain Richter in the attack, than to the inherent suitability of the weapon.

Now, at last, when the King began to enquire about affairs in the Marches and the Queen engaged her mother in talk about the suitability of their Westminster apartment, Cressida was able to really look about her.

With long-range scanningeven of the simplest and most basic typesit is possible to detect the suitability of a star system long before you enter it.

Archer had always had his doubts about the Squids' suitability to run what obviously should have been an Air Force command properly, but he'd never seriously expected them to drop the ball this badly.

Archer had always had his doubts about the Squids suitability to run what obviously should have been an Air Force command properly, but hed never seriously expected them to drop the ball this badly.

At any rate, I see my suitability to serve as Magister Ludi as imperiled, and this by circumstances beyond my control.

That model will be designed, in evolution, for its suitability for useful internal representation, irrespective of the physical stimuli that come to it from outside.

We know how to plan things, like overall corporate policy, like inventory management, like distribution, like site suitability.

This of course merely suggests a certain degree of suitability from a physical point of view.