MEANING
To organize something again in a different arrangement.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- reorganize a department
- reorganize records
On the page
The department was reorganized around tasks rather than locations.
The archivist reorganized the records while preserving their identifiers.
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Word forms
- Base
- reorganize
- Past tense
- reorganized
- Past participle
- reorganized
- Present participle
- reorganizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- reorganize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are reorganizing
- Present perfect
- have/has reorganized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been reorganizing
- Past
- reorganized
- Past continuous
- was/were reorganizing
- Past perfect
- had reorganized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been reorganizing
- Future
- will reorganize
- Future continuous
- will be reorganizing
- Future perfect
- will have reorganized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been reorganizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: reorganize; reorganizes; reorganized; reorganized; reorganizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: renewed assessment, explicit formulation, classification and framing. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: reorganizes.
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