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structural adjustment

structural adjustment noun: the offering of loans by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to countries experiencing economic crisis, with the aim of adjusting their economic structure, improving international competitiveness, and restoring the balance of payments.

Noun

structural adjustment (countable and uncountable, plural structural adjustments)

  1. The offering of loans by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to countries experiencing economic crisis, with the aim of adjusting their economic structure, improving international competitiveness, and restoring the balance of payments.

Forms of structural adjustment

pluralstructural adjustments

Words formed from structural adjustment

  • structural adjustment loan
  • structural adjustment program

Questions about structural adjustment

What does structural adjustment mean?
Structural adjustment means the offering of loans by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to countries experiencing economic crisis, with the aim of adjusting their economic structure, improving international competitiveness, and restoring the balance of payments.
What part of speech is structural adjustment?
Structural adjustment is a noun.
What is the plural of structural adjustment?
The plural of structural adjustment is structural adjustments.

Words near structural adjustment in the dictionary

  1. structronics
  2. structs
  3. structurability
  4. structurable
  5. structural
  6. structural adjustment
  7. structural adjustments
  8. structural anthropologist
  9. structural anthropologists
  10. structural anthropology
  11. structural biology

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