The phrase "adequate meaning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the sufficiency or appropriateness of the meaning of a word, phrase, or concept in a particular context.
Example: "The term 'sustainability' has an adequate meaning in environmental discussions, as it encompasses various aspects of ecological balance."
Alternatives: "sufficient meaning" or "appropriate meaning".
It turned out that only 13 percent of those surveyed had actually done what the consulting firm considered to be adequate — meaning they had an overall security strategy, they had reviewed the effectiveness of their strategy and they knew precisely the types of breaches that had already hit them over the last 12 months.
Patients should also empirically consider that the benefit of preventive medication had not been adequate (meaning they were not satisfied with their level of improvement).
It's not unusual to be some sort of code word (e.g., Tapitapou, Bipibopi or other silly nonsense) a word from your actual language that conveys the adequate meaning (e.g., quiet, stop, silence time, timeout, etc).
More than a quarter of Turkey's children live in poverty, meaning that their caregivers do not have adequate means to feed, clothe, shelter, educate or protect them.
An adequate physical meaning of these quantities in both the time and frequency domains is presented.
We determined that a minimum sample size of 200 survey respondents will be adequate for meaning analyses.
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) says that the tight timeframe means it is unlikely that asylum seekers arriving by boat will receive adequate medical assessment, meaning they could face "significant health issues" once transferred.
Thus, instead of 's means that p', Davidson proposes, as the model for theorems of an adequate theory of meaning, 's is true if and only if p' (the use of the biconditional 'if and only if' is crucial here as it ensures the truth-functional equivalence of the sentences s and p, that is, it ensures they will have identical truth-values).
To see why this might be necessary for an adequate account of meaning, let's focus on context sensitive expressions like 'here'here' or 'this'this
Is an algorithm that correctly associates sentences with truth-conditions (relative to contexts) necessary and/or sufficient for being an adequate theory of meaning?
What Davidson's work shows, then, is that meeting the requirement of Tarski's Convention T can be seen as the basic requirement for an adequate theory of meaning.
