Reorientation

  

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Reorientation

Definition: Reorientation

Reorientation

Noun

1. A new orientation; a changed set of attitudes and beliefs.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Commercial Usage: Reorientation

DomainTitle

Books

  • Action in Late Ming Thought: The Reorientation of Lu K'UN and Other Scholar-Officials (reference)

  • Consciousness and Society: The Reorientation of European Social Thought, 1890-1930 (reference)

  • German Volkskunde: A Decade of Theoretical Confrontation, Debate, and Reorientation (1967-1977) (reference)

  • Industrial Restructuring and Trade Reorientation in Eastern Europe (reference)

  • Psychic Conversion and Theological Foundations: Toward a Reorientation of the Human Sciences (Aar Studies in Religion, No. 25.) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Reorientation

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Quality-of-life considerations in patients undergoing surgical treatment for obesity must be considered, as there must be reorientation and adjustment to the side effects of surgery and the effect of a changing body image. (references)

Economic History

Georgia

The combined consequences of the civil war and economic reorientation have been devastating. (references)

Netherlands

Structural and regulatory reforms have been an integral part of a major reorientation of Dutch economic policy since the early eighties. (references)

Slovak Rep

The reorientation of Slovak trade to the west continued with exports to OECD countries up 29.5 percent for 2000, accounting for 91.6 percent of exports. (references)

Political Economy

Gambia

Jammeh's party, the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC), won 33 of the 45 assembly seats filled by election. (references)

ALGERIA

This reorientation should result in an important need for equipment for processing and packaging agricultural products, creating export opportunities for U.S. manufacturers of such equipment. (references)

ALGERIA

U.S. wheat exports to Algeria dramatically decreased in the first half of 2001, partly as a result of commercial and inspection problems with several wheat shipments in the fall of 2000. There may be new opportunities for U.S. cereals exporters in the future, as the new reorientation of Algerian agriculture will result in more production of traditional crops such as olives and grapes, at the expense of cereal production. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Reorientation

"Reorientation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Reorientation" is used about 59 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5944,010

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reorientation

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  reorientation

8

  professionnelle reorientation

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reorientation

Language Translations for "reorientation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏تبديل الاتجاه. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

再定位. (various references)

   

Danish

  

psykologisk nyorientering (psychological reorientation), omlægning af produktionspotentialet (reorientation of production potential), antenne-reorientering (aerial reorientation, antenna reorientation). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

heroriëntatie van het productiepotentieel (reorientation of production potential), heroriëntatie van de antenne (aerial reorientation, antenna reorientation). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

antennin uudelleensuuntaus (aerial reorientation, antenna reorientation). (various references)

   

French

  

réorientation psychologique (psychological reorientation), réorientation du potentiel de la production (reorientation of production potential), réorientation de l'antenne (aerial reorientation, antenna reorientation). (various references)

   

German

  

psychologische Neuausrichtung (psychological reorientation), Neuausrichtung des Produktionspotentials (reorientation of production potential), Antennenneuausrichtung (aerial reorientation, antenna reorientation). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επαναπροσανατολισμός κεραίας (aerial reorientation, antenna reorientation), αναπροσανατολισμός του παραγωγικού δυναμικού (reorientation of production potential), ψυχολογικός επαναπροσανατολισμός (psychological reorientation). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ripuntamento dell'antenna (aerial reorientation, antenna reorientation), riorientamento dell'antenna (aerial reorientation, antenna reorientation), riorientamento del potenziale della produzione (reorientation of production potential), nuovo orientamento psicologico (psychological reorientation). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eorientationray

   

Portuguese

  

reorientação psicológica (psychological reorientation), reorientação do potencial de produção (reorientation of production potential), re-orientação da antena (aerial reorientation, antenna reorientation). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reorientacion psicologica (psychological reorientation), reorientación del potencial productivo (reorientation of production potential), reorientación de la antena (aerial reorientation, antenna reorientation). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Reorientation

Derivations

Words beginning with "reorientation": reorientations. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Reorientation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reprentation. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Reorientation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-i-n-n-o-o-r-r-t-t"

-2 letters: orientation, reiteration.

-4 letters: entertain, entrainer, iteration, itinerant, itinerate, nitration, nonrioter, orientate, reentrant, retention, tretinoin.

-5 letters: anointer, anterior, antiriot, inerrant, inertiae, interior, intertie, intonate, intranet, irritant, irritate, nitrator, notation, ratooner, rattener, reanoint, renitent, reorient, retainer, retinite, retirant, rotation, rotenone, rottener, tenorite, triennia.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-i-n-n-o-o-r-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: reorientations.

 

+3 letters: intercorrelation.

 

+4 letters: intercorrelations.

 

+5 letters: counterretaliation, overcentralization, overinterpretation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Reorientation


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 6F 72 69 65 6E 74 61 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01101111 01110010 01101001 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 006F 0072 0069 0065 006E 0074 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52718184757180866786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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