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Reorganization

noun

The imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes). Synonyms: reorganisation, shake-up, shakeup. "Top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup"

An extensive alteration of the structure of a corporation or government. "The reorganization was prescribed by federal bankruptcy laws"

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"Reorganization" Quotes from Famous Books

... Edward's tenure of office the reorganization of the Naval Staff was taken in hand. Changes from which great benefit resulted were effected in the Staff organization. Sir Edward very quickly saw the necessity for a considerable strengthening of the Staff. In addition to the newly formed and rapidly expanding Anti-Submarine Division of ...

— The Crisis of the Naval War • John Rushworth Jellicoe

... words as to personnel may not be out of place before we leave the subject of this Desert campaign. Throughout this time the Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force was General Sir Archibald Murray, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. A reorganization of the force took place in October, 1917, in consequence of which General Murray moved his headquarters back from Ismailia to Cairo. At the same time, the new headquarters of the Eastern Force came into existence at Ismailia under the command of Lieut.-General Sir Charles Dobell, ...

— With the British Army in The Holy Land • Henry Osmond Lock

... new employees each year in order to maintain their regular working force of 2,500. Within six months new employees were being taken on at the rate of only 4,080 a year—and this notwithstanding the fact that many changes were necessitated by sweeping reorganization and adoption of new methods ...

— Analyzing Character • Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb

... of reorganization by taking up the work which his grandfather had begun—that of replacing the mere arbitrary power of the sovereign by a uniform system of administration, and bringing into order the various conflicting authorities ...

— Henry the Second • Mrs. J. R. Green

... treasury. In Holland, the Parliament of June, 1920, by a vote of 72 against 3, passed a new school-law which recognizes and subsidizes all separate primary, high and normal schools. In Italy, the Minister of Education, Benedetto Croce, in a speech on the "reorganization of education," stated publicly that the neutral school was theoretically absurd and practically impossible. In Spain,[3] by a Bill of May, 1919, the State universities have passed out of the hands of the Government. France, Portugal, Argentine Republic are fighting ...

— Catholic Problems in Western Canada • George Thomas Daly

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