- enough for a particular purpose; as much as you need
- Allow sufficient time to get there.
- One dose should be sufficient.
- sufficient to do something These reasons are not sufficient to justify the ban.
- Our budget is hardly sufficient to pay people, let alone buy any new equipment.
- sufficient for something/somebody Is £100 sufficient for your expenses?
- The salary proved sufficient for his needs.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- prove
- seem
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- quite
- barely
- hardly
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- for
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘legally satisfactory’): from Old French, or from Latin sufficient- ‘meeting the need of’, from sufficere ‘put under, meet the need of’, from sub- ‘under’ + facere ‘make’.
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