acceptable
The acceptability of risks can be judged by comparing them to other risks.
The problems of public acceptability of wind farms have been exaggerated.
The most important thing is the quality and acceptability of the product.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Suitable and acceptable
able
acceptable
acceptably
accepted
accordingly
convenience
correctly
correctness
decent
decently
do the decent thing
felicity
just what the doctor orderedidiom
legitimate
practical
quality
re-eligibility
re-eligible
relevance
relevant

Examples of acceptability

acceptability
Conversely, the identity hypothesis makes it possible to dissociate the acceptability of identical consonants from their similarity.
The general policy is that prevention programs should meet high standards of effectiveness and efficiency, as well as ethical, legal, and social acceptability.
Telicity decreases in the following examples from (29a) to (29d), correlating with an increase of acceptability of impersonal passives.
Patient-related issues were evenly distributed across a series of dimensions but with a tendency to focus on acceptability and psychological reactions.
Crucial sentences referred to in the study are included in appendix 2, along with the average levels of acceptability for these items.
The concept of an argumentative structure, with the two notions of argument and acceptability, are a convenient framework for developing practical reasoning tools.
Here, humans are used to make judgements regarding the degree of acceptability of the translation.
Representing uncertainty : the role of cost-effectiveness acceptability curves.
Cost-effectiveness was assessed using the net-benefit approach and cost-effectiveness acceptability curves.
This study has demonstrated that a key factor in achieving such acceptability is the provision of counselling both during and, importantly, after the decision-making process.
Expenditure within such different categories may have to pass different acceptability tests because they are assigned to different 'mental accounts'.
Then subjects were told that linguistic acceptability could be judged in the same way as line length.
Outcomes were death, mental state, relapse, re-admission, burden, expressed emotion, medication compliance and acceptability of treatment.
Cost-effectiveness analysis of bootstrapped trial data using net monetary benefits and acceptability curves.
We expect perceptions of social justice to have a profound influence on the popular acceptability of economic liberalisation programmes.
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