readjustment

readjust | American Dictionary

readjust
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˌri·əˈdʒʌst/
to change the way you live or behave to fit a new or different situation:
[ I ]The government program was established to help soldiers returning from World War II readjust to civilian life.
To readjust something is to change it, move it, or correct it:
[ T ]It's time to readjust income taxes so the more well-to-do pay a higher percent of tax.

readjustment

noun[ C ]us/ˌri·əˈdʒʌst·mənt/
Retirement is a readjustment – no question about it.

Examples of readjust

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From the start to the finish of an operatic project, librettists adjusted and readjusted their texts around the traditional imperatives of vocal and theatrical types.
In drawings and photographs the site seems flat and level, but actually the levels have been readjusted.
He may also readjust his action in favour of a particular actor that would not receive attention in the present situation.
After release, the device will readjust itself to the plane of the atrial septum, and its position will become more suitable for echocardiographic evaluation.
In particular how the level lines of the bubble readjust to the shape of the container has not been studied.
A does not readjust further until after a further death.
By giving trade unions widespread legal immunities from tort actions, it readjusted property rights more radically, probably, than any preceding bill.
From the first feedback session participants learned to readjust their descriptions.
Phrasing and breathing must be replanned, tempi and dynamics readjusted.
It functioned to instruct the observer, readjusting his perspective on the vineyard as the space of a phylloxera infection.
Thus, it is necessary to readjust the centerpoints of each function carrier again after moving some of them.
Monolinguals do not receive this kind of extra evidence, and will readjust their analysis more quickly purely on the basis of the input.
Every month it would be necessary to readjust the limits of the various microclimatic zones.
Office managers had to readjust their definition of what was ' rational ' agricultural practice.
Therefore, the government had to readjust the food subsidy programme in 1973 and 1974.
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