reposition

1. 1.

   depositing in a warehouse

   “they decided to reposition their furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn”

   “my car is in storage”

   “publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing”

   Synonymsrepositingstoragewarehousing

   Broaderdeposit

   Narrowerstockpiling

Other forms of reposition

plural

repositions·

past tense

repositioned·

present participle

repositioning·

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 reposition

What does reposition mean?

reposition means "change place or direction". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reposition?

reposition has 4 syllables: re-po-sit-ion. The stress falls on "sit". In IPA it is /ˌɹipəˈzɪʃən/.

What is another word for reposition?

Close synonyms include shift, dislodge, repositing, storage, warehousing. 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 reposition a common word?

reposition 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 reposition?

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