Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To adjust or arrange again.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To settle again; put in order again, as what had been discomposed.
  • To adjust in a new way; make a different adjustment, arrangement, or settlement of.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb to adjust again

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb adjust again after an initial failure
  • verb adjust anew

Etymologies

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re- +‎ adjust

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Examples

  • Then she added, like one who would fain readjust herself upon the heights of her own resolution by a good excuse for having fallen.

    The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

  • He also said the company plans to "readjust" product prices as its purchase prices of raw materials such as iron ore and coal are volatile in the spot markets.

    Posco's Net Soars on Steel Demand Kyong-Ae Choi 2010

  • He also said the company plans to "readjust" product prices as its purchase prices of raw materials such as iron ore and coal are volatile in the spot markets.

    Posco's Net Soars on Steel Demand Kyong-Ae Choi 2010

  • He also said the company plans to "readjust" product prices, as purchase prices of raw materials such as iron ore and coal are volatile in the spot markets.

    Corporate Watch 2010

  • He also said the company plans to "readjust" product prices as its purchase prices of raw materials such as iron ore and coal are volatile in the spot markets.

    Posco's Net Soars on Steel Demand Kyong-Ae Choi 2010

  • He also said the company plans to "readjust" product prices, as purchase prices of raw materials such as iron ore and coal are volatile in the spot markets.

    Corporate Watch 2010

  • He also said the company plans to "readjust" product prices as its purchase prices of raw materials such as iron ore and coal are volatile in the spot markets.

    Posco's Net Soars on Steel Demand Kyong-Ae Choi 2010

  • He also said the company plans to "readjust" product prices, as purchase prices of raw materials such as iron ore and coal are volatile in the spot markets.

    Corporate Watch 2010

  • Bereft of affordable health care, devoid of a decent place to live, watching mutely as politicians cynically 'readjust' standards to appear to be addressing their problems, Americans, New Yorkers, are not like Iranians.

    Michael Henry Adams: New Yorkers at the Crossroads? 2009

  • THE COLLAPSING DOLLAR: The dollar fell to a new low against the euro on Friday, propelled by Bernanke's glum economic forecast and by signals from the Chinese government that it would "readjust" some of its U.S.

    PERFECT STORM = HOUSING CRASH, IRAQ DRAIN & COLLAPSING DOLLAR 2007

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