Today’s “Word of the Day” is heuristic and it is a noun meaning “(shortcut) methods or (rule-of-thumb) strategies used to solve problems and make judgments quickly and efficiently”.
Example Sentence: Our findings also bring useful insights for transnational organisations (e.g., the World Health Organization,…). Typically, transnational organisations use the country’s per capita income as the cut-off line to determine a country’s eligibility to receive vaccine donations. While this criterion is a less controversial heuristic, an underdeveloped region within a nation, made worse by the lack of health infrastructure and the lack of political alignment between federal and regional governments, may deserve additional attention during pandemics.
This word is present in The Hindu article The influenza pandemic and ‘nations within a nation’ and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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