To fit, as one thing to another; make correspondent or conformable; adapt; accommodate: as, to adjust things to a standard.To put in order; regulate or reduce to system; bring to a proper state or position: as, to adjust a scheme; to adjust affairs; “adjusting the orthography,” Johnson.To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result: as, to adjust accounts.To put forward; suggest.To add. Caxton.