Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Arising again or anew, as the life of nature in spring.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Rising again.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To orient again; to become oriented after a dislocation or period of disorientation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb orient once again, after a disorientation
  • verb cause to turn
  • verb set or arrange in a new or different determinate position

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Examples

  • Bernhard Linde mentions, for instance how, when the somewhat nationalist poetic movement "Noor Eesti" Young Estonia first got off the ground between about 1908 and 1915, the young generation invited Estonia to reorient from a Russian-German axis to an Anglo-French one.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Eric Dickens 2009

  • And it was Paul Equale, our other lobbyist who, in the final weeks before the '94 election, was clever enough to "reorient" -- that's his word -- the money of his political action committee -- his PAC -- from Democrats to Republicans so that immediately when the Republicans were in power he had an in.

    War Without Bloodshed: The Art of Politics 1996

  • And so what the surgery was supposed to do was to realign the eyes in their orbits by taking the eye muscles, shortening some of them, reattaching them to the eye orbit to, you know, kind of reorient where the eye sat.

    Do You See What I See? A Scientist's Journey Into 3-D 2010

  • Beyond Webb's criminal justice bill and pursuing what he calls "economic fairness," Webb has devoted time to working to "reorient" American foreign policy, particularly with China and its neighbors.

    Will Webb run again? Decision to come in early 2011 Ben Pershing 2010

  • Beyond Webb's criminal justice bill and pursuing what he calls "economic fairness," Webb has devoted time to working to "reorient" American foreign policy, particularly with China and its neighbors.

    Will Webb run again? Decision to come in early 2011 Ben Pershing 2010

  • And so what the surgery was supposed to do was to realign the eyes in their orbits by taking the eye muscles, shortening some of them, reattaching them to the eye orbit to, you know, kind of reorient where the eye sat.

    Do You See What I See? A Scientist's Journey Into 3-D 2010

  • MR. MCCURRY: No, it was basically just to give a break and let the President kind of reorient a little bit.

    Briefing By Mccurry And Lockhart ITY National Archives 1996

  • My investigation began last spring, shortly after King's report was published, when an evangelical group held a conference in a central London church for therapists wanting to learn how to "reorient" their patients.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • My investigation began last spring, shortly after King's report was published, when an evangelical group held a conference in a central London church for therapists wanting to learn how to "reorient" their patients.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • Orrzag's use of the word "reorient" is a red flag that there really is no spending reduction going on here.

    BizzyBlog 2009

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