adjust

Meaning

Verb

• To modify.
• To improve or rectify.
• To settle an insurance claim.
• To change to fit circumstances.

Related

Similar words

• change, edit, modify, set

Origin

• From Middle English ajusten, borrowed from Middle French adjuster, or Old French, from Latin ad ("to, up to, towards") + iustus. Probably influenced in sense by Old French ajouster (cf. modern ajouter), from Vulgar Latin *adiuxtāre, from Latin iuxta. The Middle English originally meant "to correct, remedy" in the late 14th century, and was reborrowed from Middle French in the early 17th century. According to another view on the etymology, the word was actually derived from Old French ajouster and then supposedly later influenced by folk etymology from Latin iustus.