readjustmentn.
/ˌriːəˈdʒʌs(t)m(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌriəˈdʒəs(t)m(ə)nt/ The process of readjusting something or of being readjusted; an alteration or correction.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [noun]
rightingOE
mendmentc1300
amendment1340
correction1340
amendinga1382
mendinga1400
rectificationa1400
mendnessa1425
redress1448
addressment1481
redressa1529
remedying1547
redub1549
restauration1560
correcting1580
rightening1583
emendation1586
restitution1636
cure1675
reform1700
readjustment1749
remediation1794
redressal1800
redressment1822
the world > time > change > [noun] > change within limits, variation, or modification > again
readjustment1749
remodification1793
re-revision1823
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > [noun] > again
readjustment1749
readaptation1789
1749 T. Birch Hist. View Negotiations p. iv Ignorance, prejudice, envy [etc.], have at all times concurred in the misrepresentation of facts; the re-adjustment of which demands the united efforts of industry, sagacity [etc.]
1771 J. Smeaton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 61 208 After this re~adjustment they both agreed to 1°.
1793 F. Wollaston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 149 It is very steady; and rarely wants any re~adjustment at all.
1865 R. W. Dale Jewish Temple xii. 129 Your theology needs alteration and readjustment.
1883 J. A. Froude in Lett. & Memorials J. W. Carlyle I. 194 The house..requiring paint and other re-adjustments.
1904 E. Wharton Ital. Villas vi. 197 It takes the modern traveller an effort of mental readjustment to recognize in this ‘clump of peakèd isles’..the smiling groves and terraces of the Isola Bella and the Isola Madre.
1955 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Post 23 Mar. 55/4 When the dentist was made a major ‘it was not a promotion but a readjustment in rank’!
1995 N. Hornby High Fidelity (1996) vii. 79 Of course things..complicate life, and there are all kinds of readjustments to think about, battles to fight, lines to draw.
Compounds
readjustment rule n. Linguistics (in the theory of transformational grammar) one of a number of proposed phonological rules which adjust phonetic interpretation of surface structure so that it corresponds to syntactic interpretation.Cf. transformational adj., and surface structure n. at surface n. Compounds 3.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [noun] > change of word order or position > specifically in transformational grammar > transformational rule > specific
production1960
rewrite rule1960
rewriting rule1961
projection rule1962
morphographemic rule1965
readjustment rule1967
1967 M. Halle in Language 43 784 The exceptions..can easily be accounted for by a special readjustment rule.
1968 N. Chomsky & M. Halle Sound Pattern Eng. i. i. 10 The ‘readjustment rules’ relating syntax to phonology make various other modifications in surface structures.
1972 R. A. Palmatier Gloss. Eng. Transformational Gram. 141 Readjustment rule,..one of a set of special rules which prepare the syntactic surface structure of a sentence for inputting to the phonological component; one of the types of phonological rules..which determine admissible, or possible, and inadmissible, or impossible, classificatory matrices.
1977 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 1976 21 ii. 215 He also includes the suggestion, discussing Trager's similar analysis of short a in New Jersey English in 1940.., that such factors may be handled as a type of readjustment rule in the historical development of the phonology of a language.
2002 Japanese Lang. & Lit. 36 242 At the center of the model is a phonological readjustment rule.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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