problem of adjustment

collocation in English

meaningsofproblemandadjustment

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problem
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprɒb.ləm/us
/ˈprɑː.bləm/
a situation, person, or thing that needs attention and needs to be dealt with ...
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adjustment
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈdʒʌst.mənt/us
/əˈdʒʌst.mənt/
a ...
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(Definition ofproblemandadjustmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is a fact that we have a majorproblemofadjustmentin our economy.
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I should like now to turn to the perhaps rather more congenialproblemofadjustment.
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It certainly caused a difficultproblemofadjustmentfor one laundry firm in my constituency.
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Nevertheless, given the impact that fuel prices can have on the budgets of low-income households, theproblemofadjustmentcan be acute.
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That again makes theproblemofadjustmentso very much more difficult.
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There is a majorproblemofadjustmentto the conditions of ordinary life.
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I am referring to the larger and much more importantproblemofadjustmentof exchange rates.
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It is a considerableproblemofadjustmentthat has to be made.
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I believe the fact that so many of our resources are now in the non-manufacturing sector compared with the past is making theproblemofadjustmentmore difficult.
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And in both territories political evolution is confronted by the necessity to find a solution to this terribly difficultproblemofadjustmentbetween the tribal system and industrialisation.
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They have thought more than we have about theproblemofadjustmentfrom work to retirement, but in terms of practice we are doing as well as any other country.
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It will have built up modest expectations that will be disappointed and it will have exacerbated theproblemofadjustmentwhen we get to the end of the second quarter.
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Wartime brought with it problems of adjustment, particularly in the form of high marine insurance rates, but it also generated opportunities for profit and growth.
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I know that there are problems of adjustment.
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This, of course, brought great problems of adjustment to the industry.
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All this revolution involves inevitably tremendous problems of adjustment, enormous problems of health reflected in many endemic diseases, hookworm, malaria, and the rest of them.
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Of course, the exchange rate has risen rapidly, and the speed at which it has risen has led to considerable problems of adjustment.
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Nevertheless, we recognise that there will be some growers who will face difficult problems of adjustment.
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Although the open trading system has brought advantages, we have to recognise that recession has increased protectionist pressure and created some serious problems of adjustment.
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The changes, particularly in the milk sector, will, of course, cause serious problems of adjustment for many individual farmers, but they will be sizeably compensated.
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