🔄 To get used to ⚙️ To change slightly 💼 To settle insurance

to adjust

43 5.6

To decide how much an insurance company pays for a claim

verb
/əˈdʒʌst/

Specialized

: ajustar

I mean, when, when my house flooded and the guy showed up to adjust the insurance, I don't even know exactly why.

Examples

I Didn't Sell Them The Insurance, I'm Just There When They Need It... To Adjust The Claim.

The Adjuster (1991)
Are you saying the premium needs to be adjusted?

The Change-Up (2011)
Yeah, we need to adjust the overall payment in order that we can address things like hazard bumps.

Haywire (2011)
Auto insurance companies certainly understand this concept and age-adjust their rates accordingly.

Academic text (2011)
The insurance adjuster will adjust your claim based on the damages reported.
In order to finalize the payment, we need to adjust the amount for the car accident.
After reviewing the evidence, the insurance company decided to adjust the payout amount.

Antonyms

to deny

∞ 2.0

To say that something is not true

to reject

839 1.9

Refuse to accept someone or something

Phrasal Verbs

to adjust the size

1 3.3

Make something larger or smaller so it fits

to adjust the brightness

1 3.0

Change how bright a phone or computer screen is

Surface Forms

adjust infinitive

adjusted past

adjusted past participle

adjusting present participle

adjusts third person singular

Morphology

adjust = just (semi-transparent) = ad + just

The insurance sense ('determine the amount to be paid') is a specialized application of 'make/calculate the correct amount' from ad- + just; it is related but domain-specific.

Etymology

Adjust comes from the Latin parts ad- 'to' and just 'right', the same root as just and justice. So when an insurance company adjusts a claim it works out the 'right' amount to pay.