Half the job for the modern accountant or fund administrator when working for large companies is learning and adapting to software applications and all the in-house programs that are developed as part of the various groups' efforts to add value. 

I believe kids are more adaptive than adults, just make the expierence fun and exciting.

The market is cyclical, good bad, or ugly, there's usually a way to make money in it, you just have to be able to adapt.

An agent that can structure the deal so it adapts to your strategy and goals.

He needs to adapt to the marketplace.

You need to adapt to a business way of thinking.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

As times have changed, we've adapted and continue to try and zig when others zag. 

Work begins at last on long-planned redevelopment of old millChronicle Mill, Belmont, NCFrom the CBJ:Work begins at last on long-planned redevelopment of old millThe adaptive reuse of the old Chronicle Mill in Belmont had already been in the works for nearly seven years when the Covid-19 pandemic put a planned groundbreaking for the project on hold last spring.

An improvement adds to the value of property, prolongs its useful life, or adapts it to new uses.Some examples of improvements include: a new deck, storm windows/doors, wall-to-wall carpeting, duct work, and insullationAs you noted, even items that would usually be treated as repairs and maintenance are treated as an improvement if incurred while "getting the property ready for use."