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"adjustment" is a correct and commonly used term in written English
It refers to the action or process of making small changes or adaptations to something in order to make it fit or work better. Examples: 1. After receiving feedback from the test audience, the director made some adjustments to the script to improve the pacing of the film. 2. The therapist suggested making some lifestyle adjustments, such as exercising regularly and getting more sleep, to manage the client's stress levels. 3. When moving into a new house, there are often small adjustments that need to be made, such as replacing light bulbs or adjusting the thermostat. 4. The company made some adjustments to their marketing strategy in response to changes in the market. 5. It took some time for the new employee to make adjustments to the company's fast-paced work environment.
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Adjustment
noun
The action of adjusting something
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It goes on to warn: In addition, house prices have increased rapidly and may create risks to financial stability in the case of a downward adjustment".
After 1992 – which like 1970, and now 2015 – saw the polls understate Conservative strength, another adjustment was introduced.
"It's definitely been an adjustment but I'm comfortable with the differences now.
Explanations run from the practical -- a talent gap with the Galaxy – to the tactical: Portland can't make the adjustment from its cozy 110-by-74 pitch to the expansive 120-by-75 that greets them in SoCal.
The wastefulness was all ours but this fetid heat could be a planetary impersonal adjustment like an ice age, so it might well be wise to keep always facepaint and ash about us.
But we'll know there has been a real attitude adjustment when actors are encouraged to use their natural accents in stories that never set foot on US soil.
That's a whopping mental adjustment to make.
Hence Tony Blair's swift adjustment of position from champion of cheap holiday flights to guardian of the environment.
In a statement filed on Thursday, Sports Direct said it had made a £23.3m downwards adjustment to the value of the two derivative financial instruments at its half-year end in October.
"We hold concerns that this increase is too high against the backdrop of softening labour market conditions and an economy undergoing structural adjustment," Acci's director of employment, Jenny Lambert, said.
All that is required in eligibility terms – and it could be done today – is to make one single modest adjustment.
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