noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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economic
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The new package did contain some measures to alleviate the economic cost of adjustment for the poor.
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Household lights were repeatedly switched on and off, in protest against the government's economic adjustment programme.
minor
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Almost every major evaluation study has led to minor adjustment or substantial change.
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Turn off the water supply before carrying out repairs, unless it's just a minor adjustment to the float arm.
necessary
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Postponing the necessary adjustment had, however, only made the ultimate adjustment harder, and the policy dilemmas sharper.
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This also left certain Negro Volunteers unprepared to make the necessary adjustment , and led to the same kind of painful surprise.
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Be that as it may, millions of old people make the necessary adjustment .
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But it is a miserable way to make a necessary adjustment .
social
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Problems of social adjustment constituted the most frequent single source of anger outbursts among children.
structural
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Despite widespread protests, the government was about to launch its third structural adjustment programme in May 1991.
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We then begin to see the debit side of the structural-adjustment ledger.
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Here the mood is decidedly more downbeat. Structural-adjustment reforms have bitten deep into the agricultural extension service.
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Loans are available for a three-year period in support of a three-year macroeconomic and structural adjustment programme.
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The assessment of structural adjustment loans is even more problematic than the assessment of rural development projects.
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In particular many pointed to growing social unrest, crime and unemployment caused in part by the government's structural adjustment policies.
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market
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The above brief account throws into sharp relief the essential differences between the Keynesian and classical theories of labour market adjustment .
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Keynes's theory of labour market adjustment has fallen victim to widespread ignorance and neglect.
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Readers will not need to be reminded of Keynes's objections to that theory of labour market adjustment !
mechanism
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The Phillips curve: trade off or disequilibrium adjustment mechanism ?
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In other words is simply a disequilibrium adjustment mechanism .
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The adjustment mechanisms are assumed to operate smoothly as the new opportunities are grasped.
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The Caracas meeting, only the second heads-of-state Opec summit since 1975, will examine that adjustment mechanism .
period
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The Court may allow an adjustment period , and practice to date suggests that usually both parties wish this.
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In the Sheriff Court the adjustment period can range from a few weeks to a few months, depending on the whim of the Sheriff.
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They come in suspicious and uncertain and are given an adjustment period of up to 3 months.
policy
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No great change occurred in this situation until the outbreak of the crisis and the introduction of the adjustment policies .
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Both countries have enormous incentives to institute adjustment policies before those adjustments are forced upon them by international financial markets.
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In particular many pointed to growing social unrest, crime and unemployment caused in part by the government's structural adjustment policies .
process
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An additional consideration is that the adjustment process prior to floating was influenced by the one-way nature of speculative flows.
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This is not just a smarmy pep talk but an unflinching discussion of real angst and a real adjustment process .
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Floating and flexible rates Floating, or flexible, exchange rates imply a quite different adjustment process .
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In December 1987 this adjustment process took a further week and the final outcome is as recorded in Table 3.5.
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In this manner it continues the adjustment process begun before parade in the canteen.
programme
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Despite widespread protests, the government was about to launch its third structural adjustment programme in May 1991.
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A World Bank team arrived in Harare in October to discuss a structural adjustment programme .
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Loans are available for a three-year period in support of a three-year macroeconomic and structural adjustment programme .
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Cuts in expenditure were made as part of the country's structural adjustment programme .
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It was conditional on Budapest agreeing a structural adjustment programme with the International Monetary Fund and implementing market-based economic reforms.
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Household lights were repeatedly switched on and off, in protest against the government's economic adjustment programme .
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What they drew up looks remarkably like any other adjustment programme .
programmes
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Two decades of crushing debt and adjustment programmes have had a significant hand in perpetuating this tragedy.
■ VERB
allow
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The Court may allow an adjustment period, and practice to date suggests that usually both parties wish this.
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Flame control: the control key allows quite fine flame adjustment , though you need practice to get this right.
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One notable feature of the gold standard was that it allowed automatic adjustment to take place via changes in expenditure and output.
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Others are more fixed and allow little room for adjustment , and these we might think of as more lexical in character.
make
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These come at the speed of the speaker and the listeners do not need to make any physical adjustment .
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The tendency to make this adjustment , either deliberately or more often unconsciously, is not greatly different for different political groups.
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This is interesting because it disguises who is making the sympathetic adjustment .
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The Cardinal have made the adjustment to succeed without Young, who has not played since the fifth game of the season.
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It is those who do not come from those dominant traditions who have to make the sympathetic adjustment .
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It helped me make the mental adjustment from the old job to the new job.
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But I had to make a bigger adjustment to studying.
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This also left certain Negro Volunteers unprepared to make the necessary adjustment , and led to the same kind of painful surprise.
need
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The neck has just the right amount of forward relief, and needs no adjustment to the truss rod.
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Experiment will reveal that any regular polygon needs similar adjustment to transform a geometric shape into a sensory image.
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This would need diplomatic adjustment soon.
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Sometimes different sequences may need quite marked adjustment using filters and other devices to achieve the right harmonious effect.
require
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Their production requires careful adjustment on the part of the player.
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Not surprisingly, she advocates a balance, but one so delicate as to require almost daily adjustment .
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Educational systems and institutional structures require considerable adjustment in order to support this process.
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The increased height relative to the bedside locker and bed table may require spatial adjustment .
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Perhaps, in the century of the movies, all this requires no great adjustment .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I've made a few very minor adjustments to the decor, but in general it was excellent.
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Moving to the city has been a difficult adjustment for us.
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The room was full of dancers, all making last-minute adjustments to their costumes.
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There will be an initial period of adjustment .
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We've had to make some adjustments to out original calculations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before anything else, however, let's do some image adjustment .
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Even then there were elements of adjustment .
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Manual adjustment of the model was carried out at intervals of the refinement.
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The serious aerial photographer will be looking for adjustment through vertical and horizontal axes so that the field of view is precise.
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Two decades of crushing debt and adjustment programmes have had a significant hand in perpetuating this tragedy.