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How to pronounce “suboptimal”
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- Leadership Lessons From the Prime Minister of Canada
and where, I'm sure, do some suboptimal things in this policy or that.
- Definition summary
- Worse than optimal; of less than the highest standard or quality.
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How to pronounce suboptimal
Leadership Lessons From the Prime Minister of Canada

and where, I'm sure, do some suboptimal things in this policy or that.
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Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Worse than optimal; of less than the highest standard or quality.
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