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Definitions: Reorganize |
ReorganizeVerb1. Organize anew; "We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under". 2. Organize anew, as after a setback. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reorganize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Synonyms: ReorganizeSynonyms: regroup (v), shake up (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Continuance in action | Convert into, resolve into; make, render; mold, form; remodel, new model, refound, reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to, reduce to. |
Improvement | Reform, remodel, reorganize; new model. |
Restoration | Reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute; reconvert; renew, renovate; regenerate; rejuvenate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Reorganize |
| English words defined with "reorganize": Owenite ♦ regroup, reshuffle, retool, revise, revize ♦ shake up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reorganize": Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This type of research may improve understanding of how these areas reorganize after focal brain injury. (references) | |
Business | The defense industry has had to change its client base and reorganize itself. (references) | |
In early 1996, a proposal to reorganize and partially privatize Czech Railways was submitted to the Government for consideration and debate. (references) | ||
Many industry experts describe the economic crisis as a "blessing in disguise" because it forced local companies to reorganize their operations to be more efficient and productive. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cameroon | On July 31, the Government arrested Haman Mana, published of the newspaper Mutations, after he published a list of presidential decrees to reorganize the armed forces. (references) |
Economic History | Argentina | The public sector at national and regional levels is also seeking to reorganize its operations to reduce expenditures while providing services more efficiently. (references) |
Belgium | It also agreed to reorganize the numerous new laws regarding the telecommunications sector into one comprehensive volume after new entrants in this sector had complained about a lack of transparency. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tanzania | In November and December, the Inspector General continued to reorganize police commanders at the regional levels. (references) |
Sierra Leone | Since the inception in 2000 of efforts to retrain and reorganize the SLA, there were no reports that government troops committed human rights abuses against RUF collaborators and suspected rebels. (references) | |
Panama | The loan is being used at national and local levels to: reduce judicial congestion; improve strategic administration and planning, as well as judicial training; reorganize and administer judicial services; strengthen the investigative capabilities of the Office of the Attorney General; incorporate procedural amendments and access to justice; and encourage citizen participation. (references) | |
Minorities | South Africa | The Government continued efforts to reorganize and redesign the educational, housing, and health care systems to benefit all racial and ethnic groups in society more equally. (references) |
Political Economy | ITALY | Regarding lawyers in particular, a recent Italian law could force foreign firms to reorganize the internal structures of their Italian firms. (references) |
JAMAICA | The Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC), a government agency established in February 1997 to provide funding and to reorganize illiquid financial institutions, has completed its intervention and rehabilitation phase and is now accelerating the divestment of assets. (references) | |
Trade | Kenya | Likewise, the GOK has sought to reorganize and strengthen the Kenya Ports Authority, a GOK parastatal tasked with supervision of Kenyan ports operations, and the Kenya Revenue Authority to maximize revenue. (references) |
Women | Botswana | The Metlhaetsile Women's Information Centre, which provided legal assistance to poor women, dissolved during the year; however, it was trying to reorganize under a different name at year's end. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Christopher Shays | They're logical concerns, but the stakes are high. This is like after World War II when we had a new threat, we had to develop a new strategy and we had to reorganize. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | In order to meet our longstanding commitment to make government as efficient as possible, I believe that we should reorganize our postal system along the lines of the Kappel report. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | I called it the centerpiece of my efforts to reform and reorganize the government. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Reorganize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Reorganize" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 85.71% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
reorganize | 9 |
business financial reorganize tool | 9 |
business reorganize tool | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "reorganize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | riorganizoj (reshuffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تنظم من جديد, أعاد تنظيم (reorganise, reshuffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | реорганизирам се, реорганизирам (remodel, retool), преустройвам се, преустройвам (realign, rehabilitate), преобразувам (transform, transpose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 整顿 (reorganisation, reorganised, reorganization, reorganized), 整 " (consolidate, rectify), "組 (reshuffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | reorganizovat (reconstitute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vilkårlig ændring af menneskets genom (to reorganize on an arbitrary basis the genetic make-up of humans). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | saneren (to reconstruct the finances, to rehabilitate the finances, to reorganize the finances), het genetische programma van mensen willekeurig op een nieuwe manier samenstellen (to reorganize on an arbitrary basis the genetic make-up of humans). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تشکیلات مجدد (Reorganization), دوباره متشکل کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | uudistaa (innovate, reconstruct, renew, renovate, repeat), muodostaa uudelleen (build a new government, remodel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | restructurer (restructure), réorganiser (remodel, reorder, revamp), se réorganiser. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | reorganisieren (rearrange, to rearrange, to reorganize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναδιοργανώνω (realign), αναδιοργανώ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לאר'ן מח"ש. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | újjászervez (re establish), átszervez (reorganise, to cannibalize, to reshuffle, to shake up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | risanare (cure, reclaim, reorganise, restore), riorganizzare (rebuild, redeploy, rejig, reorganise), riordinare (clear up, put in order again, rearrange, reorganise, tidy, tidy up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 立直す (to make over, to rally, to rearrange, to reorganize), 立て直す (to make over, to rally, to rearrange, to reorganize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たてなおす (to make over, to rally, to rearrange, to rebuild, to reconstruct, to reorganize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 개편하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eorganizeray reorganizar-se, reorganizar (remodel), reformar (amend, intension, pension plans, recast, reclaim, recondition, reform, renovate, superannuate). (various references) restructura, reorganiza, se reorganiza, asana (drain, improve, reclaim). (various references) реорганизовывать (reorganise, reorganization). (various references) reorganizovati (reorganise, shake up). (various references) reorganizar (rearrange, reconvert, re-form, regroup, remodel, reorganise, shake up). (various references) organisera om, omorganisera (reorganise). (various references) จั"ระบบใหม่ (reorganise). (various references) reorganize etmek (reconvert, shake up), yeniden düzenlemek (readjust, recompose, reconstitute, reconvert, redeploy, redraw, reform), yeniden örgütlemek (shake up), düzeltmek (adjust, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, clean up, correct, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, heal, improve, justify, level, level off, level out, meliorate, mend, plane, planish, polish, polish up, reclaim, rectify, redress, refine, reform, regenerate, remedy, right, set aright, slick, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, Spruce, spruce up, Square, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, trim, try out, unbend, unscramble, upgrade). (various references) реорганізовувати (reorganise, restructure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "reorganize": reorganized, reorganizer, reorganizers, reorganizes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reorganize" (pronounced rēô"rgunī'z) |
| 7 | -ô" r g u n ī' z | disorganize, organize. |
| 5 | -g u n ī' z | agonize, antagonize. |
| 4 | -u n ī' z | aluminize, balkanize, carbonize, colonize, communize, demonize, euthanize, galvanize, harmonize, hellenize, homogenize, humanize, ionize, lionize, mechanize, patronize, revolutionize, scrutinize, suburbanize, synchronize, unionize, urbanize, womanize. |
| 3 | -n ī' z | fraternize, immunize, ironize, modernize, recognize, westernize. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-n-o-r-r-z" | |
-1 letter: orangerie, organizer. | |
-2 letters: erigeron, orangier, organize, razeeing, razoring, regainer. | |
-3 letters: agenize, agonize, angrier, earring, grainer, grazier, groaner, ignorer, onerier, rangier, rearing, reginae, roaring, zeroing, zingare, zingaro. | |
-4 letters: aerier, agnize, earing, earner, enrage, eringo, erring, gainer, garner, garron, genera, gorier, grazer, ignore, ironer, nearer, oaring, onager, onagri, orange, origan, ranger, raring, razing, reagin, reearn, regain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-n-o-r-r-z" | |
+1 letter: reorganized, reorganizer, reorganizes. | |
+2 letters: overorganize, reorganizers. | |
+3 letters: overorganized, overorganizes. | |
+4 letters: overgeneralize. | |
+5 letters: overgeneralized, overgeneralizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 6F 72 67 61 6E 69 7A 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . --- .-. --. .- -. .. --.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101111 01110010 01100111 01100001 01101110 01101001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e o r g a n i z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006F 0072 0067 0061 006E 0069 007A 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52718184736780759271 |
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