reorganization
Americannoun
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the act or process of reorganizing; state of being reorganized.
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Finance. a reconstruction of a business corporation, including a marked change in capital structure, often following a failure and receivership or bankruptcy trusteeship.
noun
Etymology
Origin of reorganization
First recorded in 1805–15; re- + organization
Explanation
The process of arranging or setting something in order in a new way is reorganization. The reorganization of your bookshelves will make it easier to find a book that you're searching for. Reorganization can happen on a small scale, like the reorganization of your kitchen spices so they're in alphabetical order. There are also larger examples, like a country's reorganization of its entire government or a state's reorganization of its school system. This noun comes from the verb reorganize, which adds the "again" prefix re- to organize, from the Greek organon, "tool or implement."
Example Sentences
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We canceled more than $3 billion of wasteful contracts and led Interior through the largest functional reorganization in recent government history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"Across several kinds of brain cells, this paired view revealed a consistent signature of 3D genome reorganization in Alzheimer's disease and helped us prioritize regulatory regions for future mechanistic and therapeutic investigation."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Just last month, Microsoft began layoffs of 20% of its Xbox employees as part of a sweeping reorganization to revive the company’s lagging games division.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The two most common types of bankruptcy are Chapter 7, or liquidation, and Chapter 13, or reorganization.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
A catfish that has had a career as a local leader smells one way, but as soon as he is displaced in an administrative reorganization, he smells differently, and everyone recognizes the loss of standing.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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