Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To organize again or anew.
- intransitive verb To undergo or effect changes in organization.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To organize anew; bring again into an organized state: as, to
reorganize a society or an army. Also spelledreorganise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To organize again or anew.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to
organize something again, or in a different manner - verb intransitive to undergo a
reorganization
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb organize anew, as after a setback
- verb organize anew
Etymologies
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Examples
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In political sphere it gets reorganize from the ground up and the other versions of power hungry take over.
Humbug « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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The right step to reorganize is to find an appropriate point of dissimilarity.
BNET Articles 2010
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Time has announced plans to cut its staff by 6 percent and reorganize, which is expected to translate into some magazines merging noneditorial functions.
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"In this economy, every business has had to 'rightsize,' 'downsize,' 'reorganize' - choose any of those words.
Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2010
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Perdue's decision to abolish the Department of Motor Vehicle Safety (which was created during the administration of Roy Barnes) and "reorganize" it into a new agency never made a lot of sense in the first place.
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Yes, and Ida, what's left of it, has actually going to kind of reorganize, tap energy from other parts of the atmosphere, and likely be a stronger storm than it ever was when it made landfall yesterday -- early yesterday morning around the Gulf of Mexico.
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When one of them gets into trouble, they "reorganize" and, with large federal loans from Congress, go on as before.
Blake Fleetwood: After Delta/ Northwest Can Other Airline Mergers be Far Behind? 2008
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When one of them gets into trouble, they "reorganize" and, with large federal loans from Congress, go on as before.
Blake Fleetwood: Airline Woes and Predatory Price Fixing for All 2008
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In March, Tenet gave Krongard the "ex dir" job, officially No. 3 at the agency, but, more important, allowed him to "reorganize" the agency's notoriously independent fiefdoms so that they all report to Krongard.
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So, let me see if I understand this: it is unacceptable to Mike Griffin to "reorganize" NASA's aeronautics program - but it is OK to "restructure" the very same program.
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