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Definition: Restructure |
RestructureVerb1. Construct or form anew or prvide with a new structure; "After his accident, he had to restructure his life"; "The governing board was reconstituted". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: RestructureSynonym: reconstitute (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Restructure |
| English words defined with "restructure": recode, reconstitute. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "restructure": Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 ♦ Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1961 ♦ refactoring ♦ splay tree ♦ therapeutic community. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Restructure" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (restructures). |
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Business | Korea did not attain its spectacular economic growth overnight, and likewise it will not be able to restructure overnight. (references) | |
Financial benefits from increased efficiency provide the main incentive for a nation to restructure its electric power industry. (references) | ||
Accordingly, during the past year Korea has sought to open up and restructure its economy on a scale previously considered unimaginable. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Bosnia and Herzegovina | The High Representative's decision of July 1999 to restructure the broadcasting system of Bosnia and Herzegovina still has not been implemented fully. (references) |
Economic History | Cambodia | The new government sought to restructure Cambodian society completely. (references) |
Poland | The Polish military continues to restructure and to modernize its equipment. (references) | |
Human Rights | Honduras | In April Congress ratified a constitutional amendment to restructure the Supreme Court and create an independent judiciary. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | The IPTF continued to make significant progress in its efforts to restructure and increase professionalism in the police forces. (references) | |
Peru | The Judicial Academy trains judges and prosecutors; it began to restructure its work after Congress abolished the mandatory 2-year training of all candidates for appointment. (references) | |
Political Economy | Ecuador | In addition, efforts are being made to restructure the electoral commissions and appointments in the TC. (references) |
UKRAINE | Ukraine has managed to restructure its private external debt in a comprehensive fashion and eased repayment crunches owing to the short-term nature of Ukraine's debts. (references) | |
GHANA | It introduced measures to monitor and control expenditures, increase revenue mobilization, restructure short-term domestic debt, and seek debt relief under the HIPC initiative. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | This activity also helps enterprises restructure and divest idle assets. (references) |
Russia | To date, ARCO has attempted to restructure two large banks and about 15 small ones. (references) | |
Colombia | The Superintendency's goal is to restructure and reduce the number of institutions in the sector. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | Despite governmental, bilateral, and multilateral efforts to restructure and modernize the labor court system, the system remained ineffective. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | In turn, I will restructure our civil service in the top grades so that men and women can easily be assigned to jobs where they are most needed, and ability will be both required as well as rewarded. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Restructure" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 85.56% of the time. "Restructure" is used about 180 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) | 85.56% | 154 | 25,326 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.33% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (common) | 1.11% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 180 | 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 |
restructure | 11 |
financial tool to restructure business | 9 |
business restructure | 7 |
business restructure template | 6 |
debt restructure | 4 |
engineering re reposition restructure | 3 |
tool to restructure business | 3 |
debt restructure uk | 3 |
air canada restructure | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "restructure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 调整 (adj, Adjust, Adjusted, Adjusting, Adjustment, modulate, modulated, Modulating, restructuring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | omstrukturering af statsvirksomheder (restructuring of State enterprises, to restructure State-owned companies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | herstructurering van overheidsbedrijven (restructuring of State enterprises, to restructure State-owned companies), herstructurering van de activa (to restructure assets), herstructurering door vervanging van effecten (to restructure by substituting securities), herstructureren van staatsbedrijven (restructuring of State enterprises, to restructure State-owned companies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | restructurer (reorganize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | umstrukturieren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μετασχηματισμόσ (change, modification, transformation), μετασχηματίζω (change, modify, remodel, transform). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | újrarendez (to restructure), újra átrendez (to restructure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ristrutturare (do up, remodel, renovate, restore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | リサジューの図形 (fracture, Lissajous's figure, list, list broker, listing, lithograph, lizard, lizardman, lysine, reconstruction, reject, reserve, restart, restore, restructuring, result, resurrection, RISC, risk, risk control, risk factor, risk finance, squirrel, wrist, wristband). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | リストラ (reconstruction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 개조하십시요. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estructureray reestruturação mediante substituição de rubricas (to restructure by substituting securities), reestruturação dos activos (to restructure assets), reestructuraç??ã?o das empresas do Estado (restructuring of State enterprises, to restructure State-owned companies). (various references) реструктурировать, перестраивать (realign, rearrange, rebuild, recondition, reconfigure, re-configure, reconstruct, redevelop, re-form, reprepare). (various references) reestructurar (rearrange, remodel). (various references) omstrukturera. (various references) реорганізовувати (reorganise, reorganize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "restructure": restructured, restructures. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "restructure": prestructure. (additional references) | |
Words containing "restructure": prestructured, prestructures. (additional references) | |
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"Restructure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estructure. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "restructure" (pronounced rēstru"kkher) |
| 7 | -s t r u" k kh er | infrastructure, structure. |
| 3 | -k kh er | acupuncture, architecture, conjecture, fracture, juncture, lecture, manufacture, picture, prefecture, puncture, remanufacture, stricture, superstructure, tincture. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-r-r-r-s-t-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: resurrect, structure. | |
-3 letters: curettes, reutters, utterers. | |
-4 letters: curette, curtest, cutters, rescuer, reutter, scutter, securer, tercets, terrets, trustee, truster, turrets, ureters, utterer. | |
-5 letters: cereus, certes, ceruse, cruets, cruset, curers, curets, curser, curter, cutest, cutter, erects, eructs, rectus, recurs, recuse, recuts, rescue, resect, rester, retest, retuse, secret, secure, setter, street, suttee, suture, terces, tercet, terret, terser. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-r-r-r-s-t-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: prestructure, restructured, restructures. | |
+2 letters: prestructured, prestructures. | |
+3 letters: overstructured, superstructure. | |
+4 letters: countercurrents, superstructures. | |
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