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Pareto efficient

Pareto efficient adjective: describing a situation in which the profit of one party cannot be increased without reducing the profit of another.

Adjective

Pareto efficient (comparative more Pareto efficient, superlative most Pareto efficient)

  1. Describing a situation in which the profit of one party cannot be increased without reducing the profit of another.
    Synonyms:
    Pareto optimal

Synonyms of Pareto efficient

Forms of Pareto efficient

comparativemore Pareto efficient
superlativemost Pareto efficient

Words formed from Pareto efficient

Questions about Pareto efficient

What does Pareto efficient mean?
Pareto efficient means describing a situation in which the profit of one party cannot be increased without reducing the profit of another.
What part of speech is Pareto efficient?
Pareto efficient is an adjective.

Words near Pareto efficient in the dictionary

  1. Pareto curve
  2. Pareto curves
  3. Pareto distribution
  4. Pareto distributions
  5. Pareto efficiency
  6. Pareto efficient
  7. Pareto front
  8. Pareto frontier
  9. Pareto frontiers
  10. Pareto fronts
  11. Pareto improvement

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