readjust
Positive events require readjustment and change as well as negative events.
Some readjustment is necessary if we are all to benefit from growing prosperity.
Most soldiers go through a readjustment period when they return from war.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Adapting and modifying
acclimate
acclimation
acclimatization
acclimatize
acclimatize to something
ambidextrous
amendment
chameleon
change with/keep up with/move with the timesidiom
configure
counter-adaptation
pliant
pliantly
preadaptation
preadaptive
put something back
unadapted
unamended
write someone out of something
Zelig

Examples of readjustment

readjustment
Subsequent events testified that the journal's anticipatory readjustment was indeed founded on a good guess.
The degree of readjustment and preservation of ancient socio-cultural norms cannot be assessed without this introduction.
It is not right for the state or local government to forcefully undertake land readjustment.
We need to rely upon the autonomy of citizens to deal with land readjustment in burnt out areas.
A bilateral readjustment was swift and fundamentally unanimous.
Whether these shocks increase, decrease, or simply redistribute consumption of a local public good, a readjustment period of unknown duration is likely to follow.
This work is concerned with the details of the readjustment.
During the period of readjustment households move from either a suboptimal or super-optimal to an optimal level of consumption of the good.
In infectious diseases, for example, constant readjustments within changing physical environments occur between pathogenic agents such as micro-organisms and viruses and their human hosts.
However, we assume that spatial readjustment is not instantaneous, but rather progresses as a function of the level of relocation transaction costs.
These included 10 negative events and 1 positive event that were judged to involve the most stress and the longest time needed for readjustment.
In more complex instances, the readjustment deemed suitable might spill over and involve tone assignments to two or three words in succession.
It would appear that this 'necessary readjustment' has yet to occur.
That is, by repeated trials and readjustment of the controller gains the tracking performance was improved.
However, periodically we observe significant demand and supply shocks to this equilibrium that entail lengthy periods of spatial readjustment.
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