flexible
IPA: fɫˈɛksʌbʌɫ
noun
- (chiefly engineering and manufacturing) Something that is flexible.
adjective
- Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
- Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.
- Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.
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Examples of "flexible" in Sentences
- Q Is he going to have one of those, what you call a flexible sigmoidoscopy?
- Once, liberals like Justice William Brennan relied on what he called a flexible "living Constitution."
- It has adopted what it calls a flexible approach, favoring military tribunals in some cases and civilian trials in others.
- Doesn't mean they're going to stop producing those vehicles, though, because Ford is increasingly turning to what it calls flexible manufacturing.
- "The word 'flexible' I found very interesting because generally the government has been of a fairly one-track mind," said BMO deputy chief economist Doug Porter.
- While volatile items -- which he calls flexible-price goods -- have fed into the core rate of inflation in the past, most notably during the commodity-price shocks of the 1970s, they haven't done so since.
- They are worried that they will not be consulted, and that Europe, NATO in particular, may be relegated to the sidelines, as the U.S. engages in what it calls flexible coalitions to prosecute its war against terrorists, as it did in Afghanistan.
- Among these is Peter Senge who wrote The Fifth Discipline, in which he calls the flexible, healthy organizational system a “learning organization”—not in the sense that it gathers information, but in that it is constantly adapting its structure, management style, strategy, and so on.
- However, based on public comments by Mr. Carney in the past year, the new five-year mandate is likely to include a forceful assertion of what he calls "flexible inflation targeting," or his right to respond to economic shocks or dangerous buildups of credit by taking longer than usual to bring inflation to the central bank's 2-per-cent target.
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