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satisfices

satisfices is the third-person singular simple present indicative of satisfice.

Meaning of satisfice

Verb (1)

satisfice (third-person singular simple present satisfices, present participle satisficing, simple past and past participle satisficed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To satisfy.

Verb (2)

satisfice (third-person singular simple present satisfices, present participle satisficing, simple past and past participle satisficed)

  1. (intransitive) Of human behavior: to make a choice that suffices to fulfill the minimum requirements to achieve an objective, without special regard for utility maximization or optimization of one's preferences.
    • Evidently, organisms adapt well enough to ‘satisfice’; they do not, in general, ‘optimize’.1956, H[erbert] A. Simon, “Rational Choice and the Structure of the Environment”, in Psychological Review, volume 63, number 2, page 129

Questions about satisfices

What is satisfices the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Satisfices is the third-person singular simple present indicative of satisfice.

Words near satisfices in the dictionary

  1. satisfiable
  2. satisfice
  3. satisficed
  4. satisficer
  5. satisficers
  6. satisfices
  7. satisficing
  8. satisfie
  9. satisfied
  10. satisfied oneself
  11. satisfiedly

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