suitability
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suitabilities
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Origin of suitability
First recorded in 1640–50; suit(able) ( def. ) + -ability ( def. )
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Club owners, directors and senior executives are subject to an enhanced suitability framework - a beefed-up version of the old-school 'fit-and-proper person's test'.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
They compared imported varieties for such traits as maturity, yield, plant form and suitability for seed or hay, selecting strains that showed promise for cultivation in the United States.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
One of the first clues of hesperaloe’s suitability came when the team saw the plants growing at an abandoned Arizona state test-crop facility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The state board will inspect Los Padrinos again in August and reassess its suitability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
“Probation means ‘period of testing somebody’s suitability; period when student must improve.’
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
The division neither can nor should be pre-established by the law, since it must depend on individual capacities and suitabilities.
From The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
Far from object-lessons in the suitabilities, however, the experience has furnished terrible examples pointing the contrary way.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
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