reshuffle
Britishnoun
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an act of shuffling again
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a reorganization, esp of jobs within a government or cabinet
verb
Example Sentences
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Whenever there is a reshuffle at the top of government, it is worth keeping an eye and an ear on the dislodged, demoted and rejected former ministers.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
He is taking over from Yvette Cooper, who became foreign secretary in the reshuffle that followed Angela Raynor's resignation from the government.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Mykhailo Fedorov, 35, a tech-savvy minister who championed drones and military reform, was sacked earlier this week in a controversial government reshuffle by Zelensky.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Bar an early vote or a reshuffle, if elections are held in September 2027, Meloni will be the first Italian prime minister to have governed for a whole term with just one government since 1946.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 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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