rapid adjustment

collocation in English

meaningsofrapidandadjustment

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rapid
adjective
uk
/ˈræp.ɪd/
us
/ˈræp.ɪd/
fast ...
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adjustment
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈdʒʌst.mənt/
us
/əˈdʒʌst.mənt/
a ...
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(Definition ofrapidandadjustmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Second, the new proposal generates morerapidadjustmentpaths in response to shocks.
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Implicitly, we assume arapidadjustmentof the population compared to price adjustment.
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On the third shelf is economic growth free of recession, on a fourth, price stability, on a fifth,rapidadjustmentof production to demands on the foreign market.
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When calculation costs are lowered to 0.0007, however, morerapidadjustmentleads to collapse in period 8, and collapse occurs even sooner, in period 3, for calculation costs of 0.0003.
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If one joins quickly—a rapid decision after the next election—that implies arapidadjustmentthat will be hard to accomplish.
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These make anyrapidadjustmentor cutting almost impossible.
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Artificially slowing market adjustments to genuine price shocks might actually have a higher economic cost thanrapidadjustment.
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Artificially slowing market adjustments to genuine price shocks would have a higher economic cost thanrapidadjustment.
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I do not want to bring in a tariff argument—this is not the occasion for it—it israpidadjustmentthat is necessary.
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What we are facing, on top of that regional adjustment, is the fairlyrapidadjustmentof many industries have become uncompetitive at a time of world recession.
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While the resources for this production are by no means as over-burdened as they were, delivery times are still long, andrapidadjustmentto the demands of overseas.
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It had developed for itself a very wide range of restrictive practices and practices generally none of which was conducive torapidadjustmentin a changing world.
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There is not the money available to enable rapid adjustments to be made.
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Everybody recognises that, although some of us think that we might have made more rapid adjustments along those lines.
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