REORGANISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reorganisation mean? 

• REORGANISATION (noun)
  The noun REORGANISATION has 1 sense:

1. the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes)

  Familiarity information: REORGANISATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REORGANISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

reorganisation; reorganization; shake-up; shakeup

Context example:

top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup

Hypernyms ("reorganisation" is a kind of...):

organisation; organization (the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business)

 Context examples 

There was no evidence that the children’s hearing loss had worsened over this time, suggesting instead that a functional reorganisation was occurring.

(Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound, University of Cambridge)

In profoundly deaf children, the auditory system undergoes a functional reorganisation, repurposing itself to respond more to visual stimuli, for example.

(Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound, University of Cambridge)