reorganize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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reorganizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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reorganized,
past participle, past
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reorganizing
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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reorganizesimple
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reorganizessimple
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have reorganizedperfect
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has reorganizedperfect
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am reorganizingprogressive
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are reorganizingprogressive
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is reorganizingprogressive
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have been reorganizingperfect progressive
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has been reorganizingperfect progressive
Past
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reorganizedsimple
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had reorganizedperfect
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was reorganizingprogressive
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were reorganizingprogressive
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had been reorganizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of reorganize
Explanation
When you change the way something is structured or arranged, you reorganize it. If you can never find two matching socks when you get dressed in the morning, you might want to reorganize your sock drawer. You might reorganize your stamp collection, sorting them by color instead of country. And a government may reorganize a country's entire economy, focusing on tourism instead of exporting oil, for example. Reorganize adds the "again" prefix re- to organize, a verb rooted in the Latin organum, "instrument or tool." Organize is related to organ, and its very earliest meaning was "arrange into a living being."
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“I do not believe students should always have to reorganize their entire lives around the institution,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
We’re hoping that the public, which was never consulted on whether it wanted to reorganize life this way, is at least dragging politicians somewhat in our direction.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2026
The disturbance traveled toward the high southern latitudes and helped reorganize atmospheric conditions around Antarctica.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Each type reflects a different way that protons and neutrons reorganize inside a nucleus before releasing gamma rays.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
Once, Mom had tried to reorganize his dresser drawers because she thought he could “use some help.”
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
Never mind that Zuckerberg's Meta has cut 10% of its global workforce - about 8,000 jobs - as the company reorganizes to focus on AI.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Researchers at Georgetown University have uncovered new evidence that the brain physically reorganizes itself as people master a skill, allowing well-practiced tasks to become automatic.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
These jobs exist because of how AI reorganizes work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
The move comes as the David Zaslav-helmed company reorganizes and sheds thousands of workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
For the man who reorganizes without this Something is like the chap who cleans his own clock—he usually has a few pieces of the organization left over because they wouldn't fit in anywhere.
From Analyzing Character by Katherine M. H. Blackford
The executive branch was reorganized in the wake of 9/11 to create the Department of Homeland Security, along with a wholly new law enforcement agency in Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
He reorganized the business, creating a stand-alone consumer unit that houses Venmo, and has argued the company can be a go-to for consumers’ other financial activities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
According to the researchers, these reorganized surfaces reduce oxygen reactions by a factor of a billion to a trillion.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Worried the World Cup was slipping through their fingers the bid committee reorganized in a way that made it, well, more united.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
Pétain reorganized the French defenses and took personal command of the artillery; now the Germans became the target of fierce bombardments as they clung to their frontline positions or tried to advance.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Mark Zuckerberg has failed to end-run the iPhone more than once, including his recent attempt to make an alternate tech ecosystem called the Metaverse, renaming and reorganizing his company around the idea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Business, when it works, creates new value by reorganizing labor, capital, knowledge and logistics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Airlines are reorganizing flights to adapt to potential shortages of jet fuel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
PayPal recently announced that it would be reorganizing its business under three units.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
Some afternoons she spent time reorganizing the massive room so that she could find things more easily, although it was too cold to stay in there for long.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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