Synonyms for adjustment
əˈdʒʌst məntad·just·ment

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 4 votes

1. adjustment, accommodation, fittingnoun

   making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances

   Synonyms:
   adaption, modification, appointment, readjustment, try-on, alteration, fitting, allowance, trying on, accommodation, registration, adaptation

2. alteration, modification, adjustmentnoun

   the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)

   Synonyms:
   modification, limiting, change, readjustment, qualifying, adaption, alteration, accommodation, revision, fitting, allowance, registration, adaptation

3. adjustment, registration, readjustmentnoun

   the act of adjusting something to match a standard

   Synonyms:
   adaption, modification, readjustment, enrollment, alteration, enrolment, fitting, allowance, accommodation, registration, adaptation

4. adaptation, adaption, adjustmentnoun

   the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)

   Synonyms:
   adaption, accommodation, readjustment, modification, alteration, fitting, allowance, version, registration, adaptation

5. allowance, adjustmentnoun

   an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances

   "an allowance for profit"

   Synonyms:
   modification, accommodation, readjustment, leeway, allowance account, allowance, adaptation, alteration, adaption, valuation account, fitting, margin, registration, tolerance, valuation reserve

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Improvement
   • Organic Process

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. adjustmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   arrangement, adjusting, putting in order, putting in good trim, setting to rights

2. adjustmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   regulation, setting, putting right

3. adjustmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   settlement, reconciliation, pacification

4. adjustmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   fitting, adapting, accommodation, making suitable or conformable

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. adjustmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   adaptation, regulation, settlement

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1. List of paraphrases for "adjustment":

   adjusting, adaptation, adjustments, adjust, adjusted, readjustment, tuning, adapting, readjust, setting, readjusting, readjustments, fit, recosting, correction, readjusted, fitting, realignment, wrapping, reorganization, coping, fine-tuning, alignment, wrap, adjusts, retrofit, adaptive, set, adjustability, restructuring, adjuster, true-up, regularization, redevelopment, rectification

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1. Pepe Vargas:

   All the parties will have to help in the fiscal adjustment, because they are in the government too. If they don't, the ministries they have will run out of funding.

2. Finance Minister Luis Videgaray:

   Whatever need there is for an adjustment due to a reduction in income will have to be accommodated by cutting public spending, there will not be an increase in the public deficit ... and of course there will be not be tax increases.

3. Priya Misra:

   We continue to remain long 10's, targeting 1.3% due to a combination of weakness in the global economy and trade war uncertainty filtering through into a weaker U.S. economy, this will force the Fed to ease beyond a 'mid-cycle adjustment to policy'.

4. Marco Rubio:

   We're going to have to reexamine not just the Cuban Adjustment Act and make changes to it based on new realities but also the benefits people are qualifying for.

5. The Bundesbank:

   The adjustment to expected price developments largely reflects the renewed downturn in crude oil prices, which had not been expected in June, downside risks to economic growth would arise if the current sluggish dynamics in a number of emerging market economies were to worsen.