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# reorganise

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

«reorganise» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To reorganise something is to arrange or plan it in a new and usually better way. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reorganise/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reorganise/#x1)
- The teacher reorganised the class into groups of four. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reorganise/#x2)
- We reorganised the data into a bar chart. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reorganise/#x3)
- Mum reorganised the kitchen cupboards. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reorganise/#x4)
- The school reorganised the timetable. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «reorganise» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reorganise/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«reorganise» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/reorganise.html) on Mova free.