- (approving) able to change to suit new conditions or situations
- a more flexible approach
- flexible working hours/practices
- 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.
- flexible about something Can you be flexible about when you take your leave?
Extra Examples- My mother is fairly flexible about what time I need to be home.
- We need to make the working day more flexible.
- A First National Bank loan is an extremely flexible facility.
- What is needed is a more flexible design.
- We can offer you flexible working hours.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- become
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- about
- able to bend easily without breaking
- flexible plastic tubing
- a fitness program that keeps joints flexible and mobile
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin flexibilis, from flectere ‘to bend’.
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