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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjustment
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
▪ The new package did contain some measures to alleviate the economic cost of adjustment for the poor.
▪ Household lights were repeatedly switched on and off, in protest against the government's economic adjustment programme.
minor
▪ Almost every major evaluation study has led to minor adjustment or substantial change.
▪ Turn off the water supply before carrying out repairs, unless it's just a minor adjustment to the float arm.
necessary
▪ Postponing the necessary adjustment had, however, only made the ultimate adjustment harder, and the policy dilemmas sharper.
▪ This also left certain Negro Volunteers unprepared to make the necessary adjustment, and led to the same kind of painful surprise.
▪ Be that as it may, millions of old people make the necessary adjustment.
▪ But it is a miserable way to make a necessary adjustment.
social
▪ Problems of social adjustment constituted the most frequent single source of anger outbursts among children.
structural
▪ Despite widespread protests, the government was about to launch its third structural adjustment programme in May 1991.
▪ We then begin to see the debit side of the structural-adjustment ledger.
▪ Here the mood is decidedly more downbeat. Structural-adjustment reforms have bitten deep into the agricultural extension service.
▪ Loans are available for a three-year period in support of a three-year macroeconomic and structural adjustment programme.
▪ The assessment of structural adjustment loans is even more problematic than the assessment of rural development projects.
▪ In particular many pointed to growing social unrest, crime and unemployment caused in part by the government's structural adjustment policies.
■ NOUN
market
▪ The above brief account throws into sharp relief the essential differences between the Keynesian and classical theories of labour market adjustment.
▪ Keynes's theory of labour market adjustment has fallen victim to widespread ignorance and neglect.
▪ Readers will not need to be reminded of Keynes's objections to that theory of labour market adjustment!
mechanism
▪ The Phillips curve: trade off or disequilibrium adjustment mechanism?
▪ In other words is simply a disequilibrium adjustment mechanism.
▪ The adjustment mechanisms are assumed to operate smoothly as the new opportunities are grasped.
▪ The Caracas meeting, only the second heads-of-state Opec summit since 1975, will examine that adjustment mechanism.
period
▪ The Court may allow an adjustment period, and practice to date suggests that usually both parties wish this.
▪ In the Sheriff Court the adjustment period can range from a few weeks to a few months, depending on the whim of the Sheriff.
▪ They come in suspicious and uncertain and are given an adjustment period of up to 3 months.
policy
▪ No great change occurred in this situation until the outbreak of the crisis and the introduction of the adjustment policies.
▪ Both countries have enormous incentives to institute adjustment policies before those adjustments are forced upon them by international financial markets.
▪ In particular many pointed to growing social unrest, crime and unemployment caused in part by the government's structural adjustment policies.
process
▪ An additional consideration is that the adjustment process prior to floating was influenced by the one-way nature of speculative flows.
▪ This is not just a smarmy pep talk but an unflinching discussion of real angst and a real adjustment process.
▪ Floating and flexible rates Floating, or flexible, exchange rates imply a quite different adjustment process.
▪ In December 1987 this adjustment process took a further week and the final outcome is as recorded in Table 3.5.
▪ In this manner it continues the adjustment process begun before parade in the canteen.
programme
▪ Despite widespread protests, the government was about to launch its third structural adjustment programme in May 1991.
▪ A World Bank team arrived in Harare in October to discuss a structural adjustment programme.
▪ Loans are available for a three-year period in support of a three-year macroeconomic and structural adjustment programme.
▪ Cuts in expenditure were made as part of the country's structural adjustment programme.
▪ It was conditional on Budapest agreeing a structural adjustment programme with the International Monetary Fund and implementing market-based economic reforms.
▪ Household lights were repeatedly switched on and off, in protest against the government's economic adjustment programme.
▪ What they drew up looks remarkably like any other adjustment programme.
programmes
▪ Two decades of crushing debt and adjustment programmes have had a significant hand in perpetuating this tragedy.
■ VERB
allow
▪ The Court may allow an adjustment period, and practice to date suggests that usually both parties wish this.
▪ Flame control: the control key allows quite fine flame adjustment, though you need practice to get this right.
▪ One notable feature of the gold standard was that it allowed automatic adjustment to take place via changes in expenditure and output.
▪ Others are more fixed and allow little room for adjustment, and these we might think of as more lexical in character.
make
▪ These come at the speed of the speaker and the listeners do not need to make any physical adjustment.
▪ The tendency to make this adjustment, either deliberately or more often unconsciously, is not greatly different for different political groups.
▪ This is interesting because it disguises who is making the sympathetic adjustment.
▪ The Cardinal have made the adjustment to succeed without Young, who has not played since the fifth game of the season.
▪ It is those who do not come from those dominant traditions who have to make the sympathetic adjustment.
▪ It helped me make the mental adjustment from the old job to the new job.
▪ But I had to make a bigger adjustment to studying.
▪ This also left certain Negro Volunteers unprepared to make the necessary adjustment, and led to the same kind of painful surprise.
need
▪ The neck has just the right amount of forward relief, and needs no adjustment to the truss rod.
▪ Experiment will reveal that any regular polygon needs similar adjustment to transform a geometric shape into a sensory image.
▪ This would need diplomatic adjustment soon.
▪ Sometimes different sequences may need quite marked adjustment using filters and other devices to achieve the right harmonious effect.
require
▪ Their production requires careful adjustment on the part of the player.
▪ Not surprisingly, she advocates a balance, but one so delicate as to require almost daily adjustment.
▪ Educational systems and institutional structures require considerable adjustment in order to support this process.
▪ The increased height relative to the bedside locker and bed table may require spatial adjustment.
▪ Perhaps, in the century of the movies, all this requires no great adjustment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I've made a few very minor adjustments to the decor, but in general it was excellent.
▪ Moving to the city has been a difficult adjustment for us.
▪ The room was full of dancers, all making last-minute adjustments to their costumes.
▪ There will be an initial period of adjustment.
▪ We've had to make some adjustments to out original calculations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Before anything else, however, let's do some image adjustment.
▪ Even then there were elements of adjustment.
▪ Manual adjustment of the model was carried out at intervals of the refinement.
▪ The serious aerial photographer will be looking for adjustment through vertical and horizontal axes so that the field of view is precise.
▪ Two decades of crushing debt and adjustment programmes have had a significant hand in perpetuating this tragedy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adjustment

Adjustment \Ad*just"ment\ (-ment), n. [Cf. F. ajustement. See Adjust.]

  1. The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.

    Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned.
    --Paley.

  2. (Law) Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling.
    --Bispham.

  3. The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into their proper relative position for use; the condition of being thus adjusted; as, to get a good adjustment; to be in or out of adjustment.

    Syn: Suiting; fitting; arrangement; regulation; settlement; adaptation; disposition.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adjustment

1640s, from French ajustement or else a native formation from adjust (v.) + -ment.

Wiktionary
adjustment

n. 1 The action of adjusting something 2 The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration 3 The settle or balance of a financial account 4 The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment. 5 The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim

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WordNet
adjustment

  1. n. making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances [syn: accommodation, fitting]

  2. the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) [syn: alteration, modification]

  3. the act of adjusting something to match a standard [syn: registration, readjustment]

  4. the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) [syn: adaptation]

  5. an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit" [syn: allowance]

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Wikipedia
Adjustment

Adjustment may refer to:

  • Adjustment (law), with several meanings
  • Adjustment (psychology), the process of balancing conflicting needs
  • Adjustment of observations, in mathematics, a method of solving an overdetermined system of equations
  • Calibration, in metrology
  • Spinal adjustment, in chiropractic practice
  • In statistics, compensation for confounding variables
Adjustment (law)

According to the law, the term adjustment may appear in varied contexts, as a synonym for terms with unrelated definitions:

Adjustment (psychology)

In psychology, adjustment refers to the behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment. Humans and animals regularly do this, for example, when they are stimulated by their physiological state to seek food, they eat (if possible) to reduce their hunger and thus adjust to the hunger stimulus. Adjustment disorder occurs when there is an inability to make a normal adjustment to some need or stress in the environment.

In general, the adjustment process involves four parts:

  1. a need or motive in the form of a strong persistent stimulus
  2. the thwarting or nonfulfillment of this need
  3. varied activity, or exploratory behaviour accompanied by problem solving
  4. some response that removes or at least reduces the initiating stimulus and completes the adjustment.
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Usage examples of "adjustment".

Jonas resumed his reading aloud, Marc perched on a replacement stool and climbed down from time to time to add charcoal to the fire or make minute adjustments to the alembic, the contents of which seemed to change not at all.

His hand went up to make some adjustment of his audiphone before he spoke.

It was still difficult to make the mental adjustment to the fact that Cassandra was not a girl but a child-shaped adult, at least as clever and ambitious as Auger and probably more so.

He had a slight adjustment made to the length of the crutches the next morning, when Alvin Bisemare called to see how they suited him, and then went swinging about the town, seeing the houses and shops he had only heard about before.

He swayed suddenly, tried to keep his balance, wondering why he could not speak, why he could only watch while Brio made adjustments to the small thing in his hand.

Clay Wallace of New York, who published a very ingenious little book on the eye about twenty years ago, with vignettes reminding one of Bewick, was among the first, if not the first, to describe the ciliary muscle, to which the power of adjustment is generally ascribed.

That was always a mess, because the derailleur got in the way and it was hard to take off, and the adjustments were always out of whack in little invisible but critical ways when it got put back together.

In the examples taken from the school, on the other hand, the processes of adjustment are, to a greater or less extent, directed and regulated through the presence of some type of educative agent.

For scientific treatment, therefore, it is possible to limit formal education, so far as it deals with conscious adjustment, to those modifications of experience which are directed or controlled through an educative agent, or, in other words, are brought about by means of instruction.

Its early period, unhappy as it was, prepared that party of Roman Catholics which, in the struggles terminated by the English revolution, was opposed as an antagonist force to the Scottish Presbyterians, and thus assisted in effecting the adjustment of the English government.

An adjustment is required providing for the employment of both metals--maintaining between them such fair equalization as would not violently disturb the value of real property or of annual products, and most important of all would secure a steadiness to the wages of labor and a sound currency in which to recompense it.

As the atmosphere cycled out, Papa described the repair procedure involving the replacement of a piece of molding, adjustment of a Fabry-Perot tuning etalon, and a system diagnostic to confirm the fix.

The final adjustment of the etalon resisted Fisher, the interference fringes drifting from their operational points before he could lock down the system.

The one thing which everywhere is variable and evanescent, is evil, or the imperfect adjustment of the creature with the works and designs of the Creator.

I said, and then I explained to him the theory of compensatory adjustment of masses as Fal Sivas had expounded it to me.