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      "\u02ccs\u00e6t\u0259s\u02c8f\u00e6ktri",
      "\u02ccs\u00e6t\u026as\u02c8f\u00e6kt\u0259ri"
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    "etymologies": [
      "Borrowed from Middle French satisfactoire, from Late Latin satisfact\u014drius, from Latin satisfactus, past participle of satisfaci\u014d."
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        "name": "Adjective",
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            "mean": "Done to satisfaction; adequate or sufficient.\nThe satisfactory results of the survey led to his promotion.\n1955, Erich Fromm, The Sane Society\u200e, Fawcet:The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
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            "mean": "Causing satisfaction; agreeable or pleasant; satisfying.\n1870, Charles Dudley Warner, \u201cPreliminary\u201d, in My Summer in a Garden, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 15:To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch their renewal of life,\u2014this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do."
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            "mean": "(theology) Making atonement for a sin; expiatory.\n1623, John Mayer, The English Catechisme Explained, 3rd edition, London: Aug. Mathewes, page 36:  therefore the \u017fuffering of any other nature could not bee \u017fo pertinent, nor kindly \u017fatisfactory."
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        "name": "Noun",
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            "mean": "Somebody or something that meets requirements without exceeding them.\n1978, Robert Thurston, Alicia II, page 143:They seem quite big on more selectivity in breeding and stiffer tests to divide the satisfactories from rejects. They say that even the term 'satisfactories' is wrong because it suggests a level just above mediocrity."
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            "mean": "The rating given to somebody or something that meets requirements without exceeding them.\n1996, Donna E. Muncey, Patrick J. McQuillan, Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms, page 130:I've been a good student \u2014 mostly distinguisheds and only a few satisfactories"
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