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# restructuring

«restructuring» in Mova's school dictionary: **changing the way an organisation, plan or thing is built…** — 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

noun (restructuring, restructurings); verb (present participle of restructure: restructure, restructures, restructured, restructuring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) changing the way an organisation, plan or thing is built or organised. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restructuring/#m1)

2) (euphemism, business) reorganising a company in a way that usually means cutting jobs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restructuring/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used by companies and news to make job cuts and closures sound like planning; official and business, all regions. Workers hear "restructuring" and fear for their jobs.

### examples

- The company is going through a restructuring, and three hundred jobs will go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restructuring/#x1)
- Dad came home quiet; there's a restructuring at his work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restructuring/#x2)
- We are restructuring the school day to add more sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restructuring/#x3)
- The essay needs restructuring: put your best point first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restructuring/#x4)
- After the restructuring, the shop closed on Mondays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restructuring/#x5)
- "Restructuring" is the word bosses use for "some of you are fired". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restructuring/#x6)

### note

Neutral sense: just reorganising. Euphemistic sense: job cuts. Watch the context. Spelled the same in UK and US.

### 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 «restructuring» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restructuring/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.