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readjustment

ree uh juhst muhnt

  • n  the act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances)
  • n  the act of adjusting something to match a standard

  • I think that we are now in a period of readjustment.
  • Desperate for hard currency, each has been forced into structural-readjustment programs, which entail strict and painful austerity measures, in order to obtain loans from the World .
  • In the new jargon, a recession can be a "rolling readjustment," a "correction," a "slippage," an "easing," a "mild dip," a "downswing," a "normal adjustment," a "leveling off," a .

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