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- verb To
modify thedesign of an existingsystem ,organization ,process orproduct in order to make it moreeffective ,efficient orresponsive .
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Examples
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We need to develop individual strategies to promote standing and ambulating time by 2.5 hours per day and also re-engineer our work, school and home environments to render active living the option of choice.
Suzanne O'Malley: Day Two: Heart Matters -- To Sit or Not to Sit? Suzanne O'Malley 2012
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We need to develop individual strategies to promote standing and ambulating time by 2.5 hours per day and also re-engineer our work, school and home environments to render active living the option of choice.
Suzanne O'Malley: Day Two: Heart Matters -- To Sit or Not to Sit? Suzanne O'Malley 2012
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The CFTC chairman sought and received vast powers under the Dodd-Frank law on the premise that he and his staff had the wisdom and knowledge to re-engineer derivatives trading.
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Ignore global warming and plan to re-engineer the entire planet with untested technology instead?
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Dr. Strange: Newt Gingrich and Conservatism's Insane Idea Industry RJ 2011
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O'Shea: Have you had to re-engineer the art or other narrative aspects to better suit the iPhone/iPod platform?
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Would this be the same labour government who deliberately (in an attempt to re-engineer the ‘swing’ voter base that commonly decides a general election) massively and systematically ramped up immigration for the better part of a decade, and has only just put the brakes on?
Crime And Immigration In Britain SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Chefs have been commissioned to re-engineer traditional foods to use other ingredients.
Indonesia Is All Over This Problem Like White on Rice Eric Bellman 2011
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Granted, real engineers are able to reverse engineer, and re-engineer (as Edwin Armstrong was able to do with De Forest's amplifier), but the term "reverse engineer" makes no distinction between an Edwin Armstrong and a copycat.
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We do know that the method ICM use to "re-balance" (i.e. re-engineer the figures to suit past admitted voting habits) is not universally accepted.
First poll in Norwich North Norfolk Blogger 2009
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Ignore global warming and plan to re-engineer the entire planet with untested technology instead?
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Dr. Strange: Newt Gingrich and Conservatism's Insane Idea Industry RJ 2011
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