1 (approving) able to change to suit new conditions or situations:
a more flexible design / approach * flexible working hours * Our plans need to be flexible enough to cater for the needs of everyone. * You need to be more flexible and imaginative in your approach. * Can you be flexible about when you take your leave?
2 able to bend easily without breaking:
flexible plastic tubing
OPPINFLEXIBLE
flexibility noun [U]:
Computers offer a much greater degree of flexibility in the way work is organized. * An overdraft provides increased flexibility but at a higher cost. * exercises to develop the flexibility of dancers' bodies
flexibly adverb:
Managers must respond flexibly to new developments in business practice.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for flexible is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is flexible a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, flexible is tagged as adjective.
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