REORGANISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reorganise mean? 

• REORGANISE (verb)
  The verb REORGANISE has 2 senses:

1. organize anew, as after a setback

2. organize anew

  Familiarity information: REORGANISE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REORGANISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reorganise    ... he / she / it reorganises   
Past simple: reorganised   
Past participle: reorganised   
-ing form: reorganising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Organize anew, as after a setback

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

regroup; reorganise; reorganize

Hypernyms (to "reorganise" is one way to...):

form; organise; organize (create (as an entity))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Organize anew

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

reorganise; reorganize; shake up

Context example:

We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under

Hypernyms (to "reorganise" is one way to...):

organise; organize (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reorganise"):

retool; revise (revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something