reorganization

1. 1.

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

   “a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum”

   “top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup”

   Synonymsreorganisationshake-upshakeup

   Broaderorganization
2. 2.

   an extensive alteration of the structure of a corporation or government

   “after the takeover there was a thorough reorganization”

   “the reorganization was prescribed by federal bankruptcy laws”

   Broaderrevision

Other forms of reorganization

plural

reorganizations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reorganization

What does reorganization mean?

reorganization means "the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reorganization?

reorganization has 6 syllables: re-or-ga-ni-za-tion. The stress falls on "za". In IPA it is /ˌɹiɔɹɡənəˈzeɪʃən/.

What is another word for reorganization?

Close synonyms include reorganisation, shake-up, shakeup. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reorganization a common word?

reorganization is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with reorganization?

94 words rhyme with reorganization. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.