Synonym: accommodation, adaptation, adaption, allowance, alteration, fitting, modification, readjustment, registration. Similar words: adjust, investment, direct investment, apartment, treatment, appointment, just, just as. Meaning: [-tmənt] n. 1. making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances 2. the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) 3. the act of adjusting something to match a standard 4. the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) 5. an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances.
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91 Despite widespread protests, the government was about to launch its third structural adjustment programme in May 1991.
92 Manual adjustment of the model was carried out at intervals of the refinement.
93 Loans are available for a three-year period in support of a three-year macroeconomic and structural adjustment programme.
94 The Court may allow an adjustment period, and practice to date suggests that usually both parties wish this.
95 In particular many pointed to growing social unrest, crime and unemployment caused in part by the government's structural adjustment policies.
96 Grade differences in long absences were reduced by 11% for men and by 36% for women after adjustment.
97 The Caracas meeting, only the second heads-of-state Opec summit since 1975, will examine that adjustment mechanism.
98 Experiment will reveal that any regular polygon needs similar adjustment to transform a geometric shape into a sensory image.
99 In this manner it continues the adjustment process begun before parade in the canteen.
100 While most budget bikes make do with just pre-load adjustment, Yamaha has given the Fazer fully adjustable suspension.
101 The securities will pay a real rate of return, based on the auction price, plus an inflation adjustment.
102 It is those who do not come from those dominant traditions who have to make the sympathetic adjustment.
103 These come at the speed of the speaker and the listeners do not need to make any physical adjustment.
104 But I had to make a bigger adjustment to studying.
105 The increased height relative to the bedside locker and bed table may require spatial adjustment.
106 Educational systems and institutional structures require considerable adjustment in order to support this process.
107 Comparison with and without adjustment for smoking gave similarly negative results.
108 Postponing the necessary adjustment had, however, only made the ultimate adjustment harder,(www.Sentencedict.com) and the policy dilemmas sharper.
109 Items more than 5 years old - cost of replacement as new less an adjustment for wear and tear.
110 They come in suspicious and uncertain and are given an adjustment period of up to 3 months.
111 A basic economic assumption in a market economy is the continual adjustment of supply and demand toward an equilibrium point.
112 Prefectural bureau undertook adjustment to nursery leading group 1996.
113 It's very picky as far as adjustment goes.
114 Baosteel still room for downward adjustment.
115 Digital potentiometer sensitivity adjustment and breakage location.
116 Easy adjustment of stitck length by push button.
117 XE --- Rack shift coefficient adjustment of tooth thickness.
118 Layout adjustment, school district building to achieve substantive results.
119 Policy three : Adjustment common reserve fund loan stipulation.
120 Television sets require nicety of adjustment.
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