Definition of “substandard”

Usage examples

• Crude mortality rates are unlikely either to reveal substandard practice or to expose a serial killer.

  Spiked (2004)

• Mr Andersen said the unit, imported from Germany and small compared to major generators, was working and not substandard.

  Courier, Sunday Mail (2004)

• Sound but visually substandard boards can be relocated around the edges of the room, or beneath fixed furniture.

  Times, Sunday Times (2002)

• The majority of females in the study were drawn from the Pruitt-Igoe housing, the remainder were in ` substandard private housing".

  Lee Harvey, Critical Social Research (1990)