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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reorganise/#m1)

2) To reorganise a group, like a school or company, is to change how it is run. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reorganise/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reorganise/#x1)
- The teacher reorganised the class into groups of four. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reorganise/#x2)
- We reorganised the data into a bar chart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reorganise/#x3)
- Mum reorganised the kitchen cupboards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reorganise/#x4)
- The school reorganised the timetable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reorganise/#x5)
- 24 children were reorganised into 6 groups, so each group has 4. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reorganise/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reorganise» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reorganise/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.