adjustとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈdʒʌst/
• 韻: -ʌst

動詞

adjust (三人称単数 現在形 adjusts, 現在分詞 adjusting, 過去形および過去分詞形 adjusted)

1. (transitive) To modify.
   • 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.

   Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate.

2. (transitive) To improve or rectify.
   • 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 11:

     But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars かつ adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

   He adjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data.

3. (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
4. (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.

   Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community.   She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.

同意語

• (to modify something): change, edit, modify, set

派生語

Further reading

• Adjustment on Wikipedia.

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