adjustment
noun
Origin of adjustment
Related Words for adjustment
regulation, arrangement, readjustment, modification, alteration, improvement, compensation, compromise, orientation, standardization, fixing, acclimation, mending, fitting, redress, acclimatization, organization, setting, conformance, turningExamples from the Web for adjustment
Contemporary Examples of adjustment
Think of the embarrassing subway platform or mid-office “adjustment” debacles you could avoid!
What the hell would go to all the trouble—if he could make the “adjustment” in a “normal” way.
But it is ordinary people who are going to be hit hard by this and it is going to be a long and painful process of adjustment.
But that $450 billion adjustment is more than the GDP of most of the countries in the world.
As a result, most of the adjustment burden will be mostly borne by the city's workers, past and present.
Historical Examples of adjustment
The adjustment is to be accomplished entirely by the poise of the body.
The ForestStewart Edward White
"The recorder here was out of adjustment, sir," he said simply.
Cap'n EriJoseph Crosby Lincoln
But it's not adjustment to me; so I'm afraid I shall have some intelligence in this matter.
The Book of the DamnedCharles Fort
Adjustment every moment demands the relation of the brain in both directions.
PsychotherapyHugo Mnsterberg
That adjustment is only perfect for light of one wave-length.
On Laboratory ArtsRichard Threlfall