satisfice

American  

[sat-is-fahys] / ˈsæt ɪsˌfaɪs /

verb (used without object)

satisficed, satisficing

1. to choose or adopt the first satisfactory option that one comes across.

   the tendency of decision-makers to satisfice rather than look for the optimal solution.

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satisfice British  

/ ˈsætɪsˌfaɪs /

verb

1. (intr) to act in such a way as to satisfy the minimum requirements for achieving a particular result

2. obsolete (tr) to satisfy

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Other Word Forms

• satisficer noun

Etymology

Origin of satisfice

First recorded in 1955–60 ( 1560–70 in the obsolete sense “satisfy”); satis(fy) ( def. ) + (suf)fice ( def. ) or (sacri)fice ( def. )

Example Sentences

But they will not see / that the fathers mẽt therby / to satisfice the churche / when they were receyued publiquely to repentaunce / and not to satisfice to Godd.

From A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger by Martyr, Peter

Except thow wilt saye that to satisfice is nothing els / but when one doth make himself approued vnto an other man.

From A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger by Martyr, Peter