Definition of "adequate to" [adequate to]

• Having the requisite qualities for (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "CTM was essentially run like a family business, and the systems which were adequate to manage the one-man show of the mid-and late seventies could not handle the needs when sales exploded."
• "Lee decided to attack at Reams's Station in numbers adequate to the task."
• "If we can keep at peace eight years longer, our income, liberated from debt, will be adequate to any war, without new taxes or loans, and our position and increasing strength put us hors d'insulte from any nation."