reorganization Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes)
    shake-up; shakeup; reorganisation.
    • a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum
    • top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup
  2. noun an extensive alteration of the structure of a corporation or government
    • after the takeover there was a thorough reorganization
    • the reorganization was prescribed by federal bankruptcy laws

WordNet

Re*or`gan*i*za"tion noun
Definitions
  1. The act of reorganizing; a reorganized existence; as, reorganization of the troops.

Webster 1913