REPOSITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reposition mean? 

• REPOSITION (noun)
  The noun REPOSITION has 1 sense:

1. depositing in a warehouse

  Familiarity information: REPOSITION used as a noun is very rare.

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

1. change place or direction

2. place into another position

  Familiarity information: REPOSITION used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPOSITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Depositing in a warehouse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

repositing; reposition; storage; warehousing

Context example:

publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing

Hypernyms ("reposition" is a kind of...):

deposit; deposition (the act of putting something somewhere)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reposition"):

stockpiling (accumulating and storing a reserve supply)

Derivation:

reposit (put (something) in a place for storage)

• REPOSITION (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reposition    ... he / she / it repositions   
Past simple: repositioned   
Past participle: repositioned   
-ing form: repositioning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change place or direction

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

dislodge; reposition; shift

Context example:

Shift one's position

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

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

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

beat down (dislodge from a position)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Place into another position

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

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

reduce (reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

repositioning (the act of placing in a new position)

 Context examples 

When properly repositioned, a joint will usually function and move normally again in a few weeks.

(Dislocations, NIH)

The enhanceosome targets the modification and repositioning of a nucleosome that blocks the formation of a transcriptional preinitiation complex on the IFN-beta promoter.

(IFN-Beta Enhancer Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Treatments include exercise, medications to control pain, and surgery to reposition or resurface the joint or to replace it with an artificial one.

(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)

The repositioning of the fetal head attitude immediately after delivery, returning to a normal position in alignment with the rest of its body.

(Fetal Restitution, NCI Thesaurus)

These markers impact a cell’s activity by changing the stability of microtubules, thus affecting cell shape, or by repositioning molecular cargo traveling on the microtubules.

(Scientists unravel the mystery of the tubulin code, NIH)

It might include manipulations to reposition your bones, medicine, a splint or sling, and rehabilitation.

(Dislocations, NIH)