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reshuffle

British  
/ riːˈʃʌfəl /

noun

  1. an act of shuffling again

  2. a reorganization, esp of jobs within a government or cabinet

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to carry out a reshuffle (on)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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No reshuffle or reform can substitute for the legitimacy and accountability that an election provides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

A Conservative reshuffle had already been expected in the coming weeks because of the shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho's upcoming maternity leave.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

A highly-popular tech evangelist who pushed for reforms, Fedorov was dismissed in July in a divisive reshuffle that triggered unprecedented protests in his support.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

England have already been forced into a reshuffle following the retirement of former captain Ben Stokes and a knee injury to Jacob Bethell that means the batter will miss the three-Test series.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

The real blow came twelve years later, when, as a consequence of a radical taxonomic reshuffle, lepidopterists decided that Pappachi’s moth was in fact a separate species and genus hitherto unknown to science.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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