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Definitions: Reorient |
ReorientVerb1. Orient once again, after a disorientation. 2. Cause to turn. 3. Set or arrange in a new or different determinate position; "Orient the house towards the South". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ReorientSynonyms: change orientation (v), orient (v), reorientate (v). (additional references) |
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Business | The number of clients of Estonia's two paging service operators has been steadily declining in the last few years and the firms have had to reorient their operations. (references) | |
Economic History | Poland | With the collapse of the ruble-based COMECON trading bloc in 1990, Poland scrambled to reorient its trade. (references) |
Georgia | The severe disruption caused by the collapse of the Soviet system has forced Georgia to reorient its economy. (references) | |
Tunisia | In 1986, the government launched a structural adjustment program to liberalize prices, reduce tariffs, and reorient Tunisia toward a market economy. (references) | |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We must reorient the Federal mission from major new construction projects to the stewardship of the existing Interstate Highway System. |
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| 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 |
reorient | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "reorient"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 再"方向. (various references) | ||||
German | neu richten (to reorient), neüinstellen. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eorientray | ||||
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Words beginning with "reorient": reorientate, reorientated, reorientates, reorientating, reorientation, reorientations, reoriented, reorienting, reorients. (additional references) | |
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"Reorient" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: redoient. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reorient" (pronounced rēô"rēent) |
| 3 | -e n t | admonishment, Ament, comment, compliment, content, disfigurement, document, foment, portent. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-o-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: onerier, reinter, rentier, terrine. | |
-2 letters: entire, ironer, norite, orient, renter, retine, retire, retore, retorn, rioter, tonier, triene. | |
-3 letters: enter, inert, inter, intro, irone, niter, nitre, nitro, noter, rente, retie, retro, tenor, terne, toner, treen, trier, trine, trone. | |
-4 letters: erne, inro, into, iron, nite, noir, nori, note, rein, rent, rete, riot, rite, rote, roti, teen. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: orienteer, orneriest, reorients. | |
+2 letters: cointerred, interferon, interloper, interposer, interrogee, intervenor, orienteers, overwinter, recreation, reoriented, urinometer. | |
+3 letters: areocentric, centromeric, cerebration, counterfire, enteroviral, enterovirus, erythrosine, extortioner, interceptor, intercessor, intercooler, intercourse, interferons, interiorise, interiorize, interjector, interlopers, interneuron, interposers, interrogate, interrogees, intervenors, interworked, introverted, ironhearted, northerlies, overnighter, overprinted, overtrained, overwinters, overwritten, reassertion, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, recreations, redirection, reexporting, reforesting, reinsertion, reintroduce, reiteration, reoperating, reoperation, reorientate, reorienting, reservation, retroceding, terrigenous, tricornered, urinometers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 6F 72 69 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . --- .-. .. . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101111 01110010 01101001 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e o r i e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006F 0072 0069 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271818475718086 |
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