adaptability.

The capacity to adjust behavior, arrangements or functioning to changed conditions or demands.

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Words that belong together

• organizational adaptability
• adaptability to change

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The study assessed organizational adaptability by examining responses to an unexpected funding change.

Adaptability to a new environment did not require abandoning every established practice.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: definition, comparison, qualification, causal analysis. Disciplines: academic writing, institutional analysis, general research. Commonness: moderately common.