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  • 11adequate protection — the right of a party with an interest in the debtor s property (such as a secured creditor) to assurance that its interest will not be diminished during the bankruptcy proceedings. (Glossary of Common Bankruptcy Terms) Relief fashioned to protect …

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  • 12adequate consideration — see consideration Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. adequate consideration …

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  • 13adequate — adequate; in·adequate; …

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  • 14adequate care — n. Care appropriate to the risk in question. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 …

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  • 15adequate compensation — n. Under eminent domain, the market value of property when taken. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 …

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  • 16adequate resources — index sufficiency Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 17adequate — (adj.) 1610s, from L. adaequatus equalized, pp. of adaequare to make equal to, from ad to (see AD (Cf. ad )) + aequare make level, from aequus (see EQUAL (Cf. equal)). The sense is of being equal to what is required. Related …

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  • 18adequate — [adj] enough, able acceptable, all right, capable, comfortable, commensurate, competent, decent, equal, fair, passable, requisite, satisfactory, sufficient, sufficing, suitable, tolerable, unexceptional, unobjectionable; concepts 533,558 Ant.… …

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  • 19adequate — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ satisfactory or acceptable. DERIVATIVES adequacy noun adequately adverb. ORIGIN from Latin adaequare make equal to …

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  • 20adequate — [ad′i kwət] adj. [L adaequatus, pp. of adaequare < ad , to + aequare, to make equal < aequus, level, equal] 1. enough or good enough for what is required or needed; sufficient; suitable 2. barely satisfactory; acceptable but not remarkable… …

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