MEANING
The process or result of arranging related elements into a different pattern or structure.
Use it for
describing a shift in relationships among institutions; analyzing a rearrangement of roles or resources; distinguishing structural rearrangement from simple growthIdentifies a change in the arrangement or relationships of existing elements, not necessarily the creation of new elements. Academic functions: Change / Pattern / Trend.
Words that belong together
- a reconfiguration of power
- organizational reconfiguration
- the reconfiguration of relationships
On the page
The merger produced a reconfiguration of authority rather than a uniform increase in central control.
The narrative’s ending allows a reconfiguration of relationships without resolving every conflict.
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Word forms
- Base
- reconfiguration
Usage notes
Countable or uncountable: reconfiguration, reconfigurations. Re-configuration is a hyphenated variant. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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