substandard
Use Substandard in a sentence
dərd adjective
1.
below standard or less than adequate: substandard housing conditions.
2.
noting or pertaining to a dialect or variety of a language or a feature of usage that is often considered by others to mark its user as uneducated; nonstandard.
3.
Insurance.
a.
not measuring up to an insurer's regular standards in undertaking risks: a substandard risk.
b.
pertaining to insurance written to cover substandard risks.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | below an established or required standard |
| 2. | another word for nonstandard |
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Substandard
is always a great word to know.
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Example sentences
The examples of substandard care of physician patients have the common factor of risk.
Many take public sector jobs with the expectation of the pension as a means of putting up with a substandard salary.
Only so much substandard growth before everyone begins preparing for winter again.
Over the last several years, it has come to represent a substandard commercial breeding facility.
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