Definition of Readjustment

1. Noun. The act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances).

Generic synonyms: Accommodation, Adjustment, Fitting
Derivative terms: Readjust

2. Noun. The act of adjusting something to match a standard.

Definition of Readjustment

1. n. A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.

Definition of Readjustment

1. Noun. a second, or subsequent adjustment ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Readjustment

1. adjustment [n -S] - See also: adjustment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Readjustment

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readings
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readjournment
readjournments
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readjusted
readjuster
readjusters
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readjustment (current term)
readjustments
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readme
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readminister
readministered
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readmission
readmissions
readmit
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readmittance
readmittances

Literary usage of Readjustment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book in the Principles of Education by Ernest Norton Henderson (1910)
"Hence it is exhaustless in its demands upon readjustment. But although we may agree that in the last analysis the inner and outer stimuli to growth are ..."

2. Materials of Corporation Finance by Charles William Gerstenberg (1915)
"readjustment OF DEBT OF HUDSON &• MANHATTAN RAILROAD COMPANY To the Holders of the First Mortgage Four and One-half Per Cent. Bonds and of Preferred and ..."

3. Materials of Corporation Finance by Charles William Gerstenberg (1915)
"The action of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and one other of said firms (as now or hereafter constituted) acting as readjustment Managers, shall have the same effect as ..."

4. Collapse and Reconstruction: European Conditions and American Principles by Thomas Barclay (1919)
"NOTE ON " readjustment OF THE FRONTIERS OF ITALY " President Wilson in his ninth proposition says that "readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be ..."

5. Oil and Gas Rights on the Public Domain and on Private Lands: Discovery and by Robert Stewart Morrison, Emilio Dominguez De Soto (1920)
"readjustment. Leases in Alaska are subject to readjustment at the end of ... readjustment of coal leases at the end of twenty years is provided for in Sec. ..."

6. British Colonial Policy, 1754-1765 by George Louis Beer (1907)
"CHAPTER X readjustment OF THE LAWS OF TRADE, 1763-1765 UNDER these conditions, when the imperial tie was already severely strained by a number of important ..."

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