downward adjustment

collocation in English

meaningsofdownwardandadjustment

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downward
adjective
uk
/ˈdaʊn.wəd/us
/ˈdaʊn.wɚd/
moving towards a ...
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adjustment
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈdʒʌst.mənt/us
/əˈdʒʌst.mənt/
a ...
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(Definition ofdownwardandadjustmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This perception may have resulted in an overalldownwardadjustmentof average expected portfolio returns and a commensurate adjustment of the annuity rate.
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Therefore, most individuals would place adownwardadjustmentto the value of life to reflect the quality of the year of life.
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A gradualist would argue the exact opposite: slowdownwardadjustmentof the inflation rate allows price setters to sustain relative prices closer to profit-maximizing levels, resulting in smaller short-term losses.
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Finally, who will accept adownwardadjustmentas a result of all this?
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A reduction takes account only of adownwardadjustment.
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The balance is subject to possibledownwardadjustmentfollowing reassessment of the revenue from certain schemes.
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Adownwardadjustmenthas, therefore, been made—as it was for this year—to take account of that advantage.
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The first problem is that concerning thedownwardadjustmentof social security, which, we hope, will be replaced by high-level convergence.
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In such circumstances, adownwardadjustmentin the value of sterling is both necessary and desirable.
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Your fears concerning the modification of the 1.27% can simply be corrected by adownwardadjustmentof the ceiling on the said resources.
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We think it is right that there should be the possibility of an occasionaldownwardadjustment.
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That is the only reason why thisdownwardadjustmenthas been made, because we do not think that the price level will necessarily hold over the 12 months.
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Thedownwardadjustmentin the exchange rate; the resurgence of other forms of economic activity which that is expected to generate; and the need for the account to balance.
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I do not necessarily consider that every time adownwardadjustmentis made to taxation it must follow on all the way through to every single grade of lower rates.
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While downward adjustments to the level of distributed profits would have been another natural response, the booming stock markets of the 1990s largely prevented such an evolution.
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He does not have to make any downward adjustments.
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These downward adjustments do not affect projects in connection with regions bordering on the candidate countries.
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But others appear to be making quite significant downward adjustments.
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The figures do not take into account the 590 people in community programme places or the 19 separate downward adjustments of the unemployment figures.
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It appears from this study that adjustments are rife but most of these adjustments, in fact, the majority of them, appear to be downward adjustments, the remainder being improvements.
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