Usually means: Enough to meet specific needs.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word sufficient:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sufficient: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sufficient: Merriam-Webster
  3. sufficient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sufficient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sufficient: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sufficient: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sufficient, sufficient: Wordnik
  8. sufficient: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sufficient: Wiktionary
  10. sufficient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sufficient: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sufficient: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sufficient: Dictionary.com
  14. sufficient: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sufficient: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sufficient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sufficient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sufficient: Rhymezone
  19. sufficient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sufficient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sufficient: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sufficient: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sufficient: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. sufficient: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sufficient: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. sufficient: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sufficient: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sufficient: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sufficient: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. sufficient: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of a type or kind that suffices, that satisfies requirements or needs.
adjective:  Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.
adjective:  (archaic) Capable of meeting obligations; responsible.
adjective:  (obsolete) Having enough money to meet obligations and live comfortably.

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