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Dictionary: ad·just·ment   (ə-jŭst'mənt) pronunciation
n.
  1. The act of adjusting or the state of being adjusted.
  2. A means of adjusting.
  3. Settlement of a debt or claim.
  4. A modification, fluctuation, or correction: made an adjustment on the telephone bill; an adjustment in the consumer price index.

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Marketing Dictionary: adjustment
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In fulfillment, change made to a computer file record. An adjustment to a customer file record is usually made in response to a complaint or clarification from a customer. See also add; address correction; delete.

Banking Dictionary: Adjustment
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Accounting entry for ledger entries not previously posted and transferred to subsidiary accounts, or to correct bookkeeping errors. In computation of equity Capital a bank writes down the book value, or original value, of loans when they were made by 100% for loans classified as Loss and 50% for Doubtful Loans with the difference being charged to the Loan Loss Reserve for bad debt. See also Adjusted Capital Ratio; Risk-Based Capital.

Thesaurus: adjustment
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    The act of making suitable to an end or the condition of being made suitable to an end: accommodation, adaptation, adaption, conformation. See change/persist.

Dental Dictionary: adjustment
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A modification of a restoration or of a denture after insertion in the mouth.

Veterinary Dictionary: adjustment
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Summarization of statistical measures in which the effects of differences in composition of the populations being compared have been minimized by statistical methods.

  • chiropractic a. — application of force to a vertebral articulation to restore biomechanical and neurological function.
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IN BRIEF: The act of living with change in circumstances.

pronunciation Ely had to make an adjustment after winning the lottery.

Wikipedia: Adjustment
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Adjustment (from late Latin ad-juxtare, derived from juxta, near, but early confounded with a supposed derivation from Justus, right) means regulating, adapting or settling in a variety of contexts:

  • Adjustment (law) has several meanings; many relate to insurance, contracts, or the resolution of disputes.
  • In Metrology, adjustment is the set of operations carried out on an instrument in order that it provides given indications corresponding to given values of the measurand [1][2].
  • In Psychology, adjustment means the behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment. Humans and animals regularly do this, for example, when they are stimulated by their physiological state to seek food, they eat (if possible) to reduce their hunger and thus adjust to the hunger stimulus. Adjustment disorder occurs when there is an inability to make a normal adjustment to some need or stress in the environment.

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