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assestamento

adjustment

noun ahs-ses-tah-MEN-toh Rare
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Also means

settling

Usage Note

Assestamento comes from assestarsi ('to settle, to find one's balance') and describes the process of stabilizing after a disturbance — whether physical (assestamento del terreno, 'ground settling') or financial/institutional (assestamento di bilancio, 'budget adjustment'). Assestamento di bilancio is a specific Italian parliamentary procedure for fine-tuning the annual budget. The plural assestamenti is regular.

Examples

"L'assestamento del terreno ha causato crepe nel muro."

Natural Translation

The ground settling caused cracks in the wall.

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