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Pareto optimality

Pareto optimality noun: an allocation of resources such that no other allocation makes any one individual better off without making another worse off.

Noun

Pareto optimality (uncountable)

  1. An allocation of resources such that no other allocation makes any one individual better off without making another worse off

Synonyms of Pareto optimality

Origin of Pareto optimality

From Italian engineer Vilfredo Pareto.

Questions about Pareto optimality

What does Pareto optimality mean?
Pareto optimality means an allocation of resources such that no other allocation makes any one individual better off without making another worse off.
What part of speech is Pareto optimality?
Pareto optimality is a noun.

Words near Pareto optimality in the dictionary

  1. Pareto frontiers
  2. Pareto fronts
  3. Pareto improvement
  4. Pareto improvements
  5. Pareto optimal
  6. Pareto optimality
  7. Pareto principle
  8. Pareto's law
  9. Pareto-efficient
  10. Pareto-improvement
  11. Pareto-improvements

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