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adjustment - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | adjustment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adaptation |
| Synonyms: | alteration, arrangement, fitting, fixing, improvement, mending, modification, organization, orientation, readjustment, redress, regulation, setting, standardization, acclimation, acclimatization, balancing, conformance, correcting, ordering, organizing, regulating, repairing, shaping, turning |
| Main Entry: | adjustment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | financial retribution, payment of claim |
| Synonyms: | agreement, allotment, apportionment, benefit, compensation, compromise, pay, reconciliation, reimbursement, remuneration, settlement, share, stake, stipulation |
| Main Entry: | alignment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lining up |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, arrangement, order, sequence, calibration, positioning, sighting |
| Main Entry: | alteration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change |
| Synonyms: | about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, amendment, conversion, correction, difference, exchange, fixing, flip-flop*, metamorphosis, modification, mutation, reformation, remodeling, revision, shift, switch, transformation, transmutation, turn, variance, variation, diversification, mid-course correction, reshaping, switch-over |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | appeasement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | satisfaction; pacification |
| Synonyms: | abatement, accommodation, adjustment, amends, compromise, concession, grant, lessening, mitigation, moderation, peace offering, reconciliation, reparation, restoration, settlement, softening, solace, soothing, acceding, alleviation, assuagement, blunting, conciliation, easing, lulling, mollification, placation, propitiation, quelling, quenching, quieting, tranquilization |
| Antonyms: | aggravation, annoyance, irritation, provocation, resistance |
| Main Entry: | arbitration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | settlement of dispute |
| Synonyms: | adjudication, adjustment, agreement, compromise, decision, determination, judgment, mediation |
| Main Entry: | compromise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, give-and-take |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, accord, adjustment, arrangement, bargain, compact, composition, concession, contract, covenant, deal, happy medium*, mean, middle ground, pact, settlement, understanding, copout, fifty-fifty*, half and half, half measure, middle course, sellout, trade-off, win-win situation |
| Antonyms: | contest, controversy, difference, disagreement, dispute, dissension, dissent, quarrel |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | payoff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion, climax |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, clincher*, consequence, culmination, day of reckoning*, finale, judgment, moment of truth*, outcome, pay, payment, punch line*, result, retribution, reward, settlement, upshot*, final reckoning |
| Antonyms: | introduction, start |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | repair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restoration, fixing |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, darn, improvement, mend, overhaul, patch, reconstruction, reformation, rehabilitation, replacement, substitution, new part |
| Antonyms: | breaking, damage, destruction, harm, hurt, injury, neglect, wrecking |
| Main Entry: | reparation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compensation, amends |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, apology, atonement, dues, emolument, indemnity, payment, penance, recompense, redemption, redress, remuneration, renewal, repair, repayment, reprisal, requital, restitution, retribution, reward, satisfaction, settlement, damages, expiation, indemnification, making good, propitiation, quittance, squaring things |
| Antonyms: | extortion, penalty, theft |
| Main Entry: | fixing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repairing |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, mending, adapting, adjusting, arranging, ordering, repairing |
| Main Entry: | mending |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restoring |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, alteration, curing, fixing, helping, refreshing, remodeling, renovation, repair, restoration, ameliorating, bettering, correcting, enhancing, freshening, patching up, rebuilding, rectifying, relieving, remedying, renewing, renovating, repairing, reviving, tinkering |
| Main Entry: | modification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | qualification |
| Synonyms: | adaptation, adjustment, alteration, change, conversion, correction, refitting |
| Main Entry: | readjustment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rearrangement |
| Synonyms: | adaptation, adjustment, correction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, acclimation |
| Main Entry: | adaptation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | act of adapting |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, adoption, alteration, conversion, modification, remodeling, shift, transformation, variation, refitting, reworking |
| Main Entry: | agreement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concurrence |
| Synonyms: | accession, accommodation, accord, adjustment, affiliation, affinity, alliance, amity, arbitration, arrangement, bargaining, compatibility, compliance, compromise, concert, concession, concord, conformity, congruity, consistency, correspondence, harmony, mediation, reconciliation, similarity, sympathy, understanding, union, unison, verification, verifying, acceding, accordance, acknowledging, approving, assenting, authorizing, complying, concordance, concurring, endorsing, granting, ratifying, suitableness |
| Antonyms: | disagreement |
| Main Entry: | arrangement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | an understanding |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, agreement, compact, compromise, deal, game plan*, layout*, organization, package*, package deal, plan, preparation, provision, schedule, settlement, setup, terms, frame-up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | change |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something made different; alteration |
| Synonyms: | about-face*, addition, adjustment, advance, break, compression, contraction, conversion, correction, development, difference, distortion, diversity, innovation, metamorphosis, modification, modulation, mutation, novelty, permutation, reconstruction, refinement, remodeling, reversal, revision, revolution, shift, surrogate, switch, transformation, transition, transmutation, turn, variance, variation, variety, vicissitude, diversification, tempering, turnover |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | decision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion; resolution reached |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, accord, adjudication, adjustment, agreement, arbitration, arrangement, choice, compromise, declaration, determination, end, finding, judgment, opinion, outcome, preference, reconciliation, resolution, result, ruling, selection, sentence, settlement, showdown, understanding, verdict, adjudicature, prearrangement, the call, the nod |
| Antonyms: | deferment, delay, indecision, postponement, deferral |
| Main Entry: | method |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | means, procedure |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, approach, arrangement, course, custom, design, disposal, disposition, fashion, form, formula, habit, line, manner, mechanism, method, mode, modus operandi, nuts and bolts*, plan, practice, proceeding, process, program, receipt, recipe, red tape*, ritual, rote, routine, rule, rut, scheme, shortcut, style, system, tack, tactics, technique, tenor, usage, way, ways and means*, wise, wrinkle*, channels, modus, rubric, schema, technic, the book |
| Notes: | a method is a way of doing things; a methodology is a set or system of methods |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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