Meaning of adjustment in English

adjustment

noun [ C or U ]

/əˈdʒʌst.mənt/ us

/əˈdʒʌst.mənt/

adjustment noun [C or U] (CHANGE)

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a small change:

She made a few minor adjustments to the focus of her camera.

Synonyms

alteration
amendment
change  (BECOMING DIFFERENT)
modification (CHANGE)
mutation

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The invitations are almost ready, I just need to make a couple of adjustments.
It requires a few minor adjustments.
Use the on-screen menu to make adjustments to the colour and brightness of your monitor.
The bike needed a few adjustments before it was ready to leave the shop.
The software allows the artist to make detailed adjustments to the original drawing.

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Change and changes

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adjustment noun [C or U] (BECOMING FAMILIAR)

the ability to become more familiar with a new situation:

He has so far failed to make the adjustment from school to work.

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(Definition of adjustment from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

adjustment | Business English

adjustment

noun

/əˈdʒʌstmənt/ us

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[ C or U ]

a slight change made to something to make it fit, work better, or be more suitable, or the act of making such a change:

A small adjustment at the right place can make a significant difference.

If the colour does not appear quite right, check your monitor settings for adjustment.

adjustment to sth The final plan will serve as an adjustment to the two-year budget approved last year.

[ C or U ]

a slight change to figures according to inflation, the time of year, etc. so that they can be compared in a useful way with other figures, or the act of making such a change:

adjustment to sth The finance minister will again delay the inflation adjustment to excise duty on petrol.

adjustment for sth The population has been split into 10 equal groups, ranked by income, after adjustment for family size.

[ U ]

the process of becoming more familiar with a new situation:

make an adjustment This is a very, very big adjustment for us to make.

[ U ] INSURANCE

the job of getting information about an accident, theft, etc. in order to decide how much money to pay an insurance customer:

There was a breach in the insurance companies' adjustment and payment.

[ C ] INSURANCE

the amount of money that an insurance company pays to a customer who has been involved in an accident, had something stolen, etc.:

After calculating what the adjustment should have been, they analyse how the insurance company adjustments deviated from reality.

See also

cost of living adjustment

debt adjustment

(Definition of adjustment from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of adjustment

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Macroeconomic adjustments should stimulate sustainable developments rather than furthering unsustainability; where they do lead to environmental degradation, compensatory projects might provide a short-term retrofitting option.

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The consumption and capital goods adjustments deteriorate the trade balance by raising absorption and lowering real income.

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Successful ageing abroad depends as much on learnt adjustments as on prior fitness and resources.

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The application of the logit method to these data requires two adjustments (neither of which came into play in the analysis of the hypothetical example).

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More importantly, as we saw, the outcomes represented strategic adjustments by political leaders, not their unalloyed ideological instincts.

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Factors which were not significant in the univariate analysis were not included in the subsequent models when adjustments were made.

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To avoid continual minor adjustments, a dead zone (+ 10% margin each side of the mean) is used.

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If necessary, this can lead to adjustments to the managed component (self-adjuster).

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In contrast, the size of clusters identified when using the adjustments varies widely.

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As a result, the primary prepositions look a lot like phonological words that are subject to such adjustments.

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Nonetheless, the exact nature of these adjustments will undoubtedly occupy much of linguistic theorizing in the years to come.

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They introduced new and similar mechanisms for inflationary adjustments.

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Various adjustments would need to be made to extend the analysis to the role of precedent in statutory interpretation.

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None of these small adjustments greatly affects the final conclusions.

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Several adjustments were made to better accommodate changes in volatility, to arrive at the final scales.

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Collocations with adjustment

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adjustment measure

Family violence ratings had no relationship to any adjustment measure.

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adjustment mechanism

In an error correction model, the coefficient for the error correction mechanism measures the strength of this adjustment mechanism.

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adjustment programme

One should therefore not categorically demand a complete set of environmental covenants to be included in every adjustment programme.

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Translations of adjustment

in Chinese (Traditional)

改變, 調整, 調節…

Meaning of adjustment in English

adjustment noun [C or U] (CHANGE)

adjustment noun [C or U] (BECOMING FAMILIAR)

adjustment | Business English

Examples of adjustment

Collocations with adjustment

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