reorganization

[ ree-awr-guh-nuh-zey-shuhn ]
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noun
  1. the act or process of reorganizing; state of being reorganized.

  2. Finance. a reconstruction of a business corporation, including a marked change in capital structure, often following a failure and receivership or bankruptcy trusteeship.

Origin of reorganization

1
First recorded in 1805–15; re- + organization

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How to use reorganization in a sentence

  • Cf. the discussion in Meade's Corporation Finance of the relation of junior bonds and preferred stocks in reorganizations.

    The Value of Money | Benjamin M. Anderson, Jr.

British Dictionary definitions for reorganization

reorganization

reorganisation

/ (ˌriːɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən) /


noun
  1. the act of organizing or the state of being organized again

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