REORGANIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reorganize mean? 

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

1. organize anew

2. organize anew, as after a setback

  Familiarity information: REORGANIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REORGANIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reorganize    ... he / she / it reorganizes   
Past simple: reorganized   
Past participle: reorganized   
-ing form: reorganizing   

Sense 1

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 "reorganize" 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 "reorganize"):

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

reorganization (an extensive alteration of the structure of a corporation or government)

reorganization (the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Organize anew, as after a setback

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

regroup; reorganise; reorganize

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

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

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

reorganization (an extensive alteration of the structure of a corporation or government)

reorganization (the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes))

 Context examples 

Nectins transduce signals through Cdc42 and Rac, which reorganize the actin cytoskeleton, regulate the formation of AJs, and strengthen cell-cell adhesion.

(Adherens Junction Assembly Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Money will be saved, and money will be spent, but in the end, you will get your finances reorganized in a way that will leave you considerably richer.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Reorganized on October 1, 1997 to the extramural Division of Cancer Prevention and the extramural Division of Cancer Control and Population Science.

(Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI Thesaurus)

The circuitry starts to relearn and reorganize to become more functional.

(Spinal cord stimulation helps paralyzed people move hands, NIH)