Word to describe a product that has a defect but was approved by a manager?
In a quality control form I'm working on, there are 4 types of results for a product test:
- All quality requirements are attended (Approved);
- There is a minor defect in the product (Approved with remarks);
- There is a major defect in the product (Reproved);
- There is a major defect in the product, it would be considered as reproved, but a manager/coordinator can release it to market as is. This situation happens when a product has a defect but it will be sold with some discount or something like that.
The form is like this:
Test result:
( ) Approved
( ) Approved with remarks
( ) Reproved
( ) "word"
All translations point to "released", but this word sounds like a product that has no defects.
Considering that a person needs to "check" one of these 4 options in a form, what would be the correct word to use on the 4th result option?
Solution 1:
Such goods are sometimes labelled as second quality or seconds which Lexico gives as
2.5 (seconds) Goods of an inferior quality.
Synonyms: imperfect goods, faulty goods, defective goods, flawed goods, inferior goods, rejects, export rejects, discards.
The question does not ask about the other three terms, but I would reverse the sequence of the last two so they are in order of acceptability, and describe them thus
Test result:
( ) Approved
( ) Imperfect (state reason)
( ) Seconds (state reason)
( ) Reject
Solution 2:
A word that would probably distinguish that 4th option could be
Admitted [to market with bugs]