reorient

verb

re·ori·ent (ˌ)rē-ˈȯr-ē-ˌent

reoriented; reorienting

transitive verb

: to orient (someone or something) again or differently: such as

: to change the orientation or direction of (something or someone)

reorient the antenna

reoriented herself so she was facing north

: to reacquaint (someone, especially oneself) with a situation, environment, etc.

woke up and reoriented myself to my surroundings

… returning servicewomen and men struggling to reorient themselves to civilian life.—

Molly Callahan

: to change the goal or emphasis of (something or someone)

… I stumbled into motherhood and was bewildered at … the volte-face required to reorient myself, my values and my way of life …—

Madeleine Bunting

… lacks nearly every resource necessary to reorient its archaic industrial economy …—

David Remnick

The long-term potential of vast databases of genomic data to … reorient the debate on medical priorities …—

Larry Downes and Paul Nunes

also : to direct (something) toward the interests of a different group

… reorienting its policy priorities to the working class. —

Franklin Foer

reorientation

(ˌ)rē-ˌȯr-ē-ən-ˈtā-shən

-ˌen-

noun

plural reorientations

Many soldiers also find blogging a useful way to help deal with reorientation to civilian life … —

Brad Knickerbocker

Examples of reorient in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Paramount Global, a one-time titan, has stumbled and found enormous difficulty reorienting its business around streaming. —

Oliver Darcy, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024 Defense spending might be reduced, and the military could be reoriented towards humanitarian and peacekeeping missions. —

Steven Delco, Hartford Courant, 27 July 2024 There is also the question of scale: The number of plausible Trumpist officials may have risen, but perhaps not in the numbers needed to reorient the government. —

Ramesh Ponnuru, Washington Post, 18 July 2024 Today's Consumer Price Index report showed inflation cooling off, as the cumulative effect of price increases since the pandemic has reoriented consumer behavior. PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta today signaled that the company's price increases might've gone too far. —

Nathan Bomey, Axios, 11 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for reorient

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