Other forms: reorganized, reorganizing, reorganizes
To reorganize is to arrange something in a different way. Same parts, new order.
It covers everything from a bookshelf to a company, and in business it is a word people learn to dread, since reorganizing a department usually means somebody is losing a job. The noun reorganization is the formal name for that process. British English usually spells both with an s. The plainer verbs are rearrange for objects and restructure for organisations, and restructure carries exactly the same ominous flavour.
1verbreorganizeTo arrange something in a new way.
“They reorganized the whole filing system.”
Also accepted in games: reorganise, rearrange
Medieval Latin
organizō
Middle French
organiser
Middle English
organizen
English
organize
English, today
reorganize
From re- + organize. organize comes from Middle English organizen, from Middle French organiser, from Medieval Latin organizō. From Middle English organizen, organysen, partly from Middle French organiser and partly from its etymon, Medieval Latin organizō, from Latin organum (“organ”). by surface analysis, organ + -ize.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA