If you adjust something, you change it so that it is more effective or appropriate. To attract investors, Panama has adjusted its tax and labour laws
To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted
If you adjust something such as your clothing or a machine, you correct or alter its position or setting. Liz adjusted her mirror and then edged the car out of its parking bay
When you adjust to a new situation, you get used to it by changing your behaviour or your ideas. We have been preparing our fighters to adjust themselves to civil society I felt I had adjusted to the idea of being a mother very well It has been hard to adjust but now I'm getting satisfaction from my work. see also well-adjusted
adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation" alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels" make correspondent or conformable; "Adjust your eyes to the darkness" decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim
If you adjust your vision or if your vision adjusts, the muscles of your eye or the pupils alter to cope with changes in light or distance. He stopped to try to adjust his vision to the faint starlight We stood in the doorway until our eyes adjusted
To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard
alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels"