reorganise

«reorganise» in Mova's school dictionary: to arrange or plan it in a new and usually better way — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (reorganise, reorganises, reorganised, reorganising; US spelling reorganize, reorganized, reorganizing)

meaning for a pupil

1) To reorganise something is to arrange or plan it in a new and usually better way. tree →

2) To reorganise a group, like a school or company, is to change how it is run. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday school life children reorganise their desks, bookshelves and groups. In maths, data can be reorganised into a table or chart. Phrases: «reorganise the shelves», «reorganise the timetable».

examples

• Let's reorganise the books by colour. tree →
• The teacher reorganised the class into groups of four. tree →
• We reorganised the data into a bar chart. tree →
• Mum reorganised the kitchen cupboards. tree →
• The school reorganised the timetable. tree →
• 24 children were reorganised into 6 groups, so each group has 4. tree →

note

UK spelling -ise, US -ize; both correct (Canada, US use -ize). Noun: reorganisation / reorganization. In maths, reorganising groups keeps the total the same.

In the corpora

• "Restructuring" means reorganising a company, usually with job cuts.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «reorganise» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.