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🔗 To connect again 🏢 To rejoin officially
to reattach

to reattach

1 3.7
Return a department or office to the control of another organization
  • verb
  • /ˌriːəˈtæʧ/
  • Formal
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  • After the merger, the company decided to reattach the marketing department to the sales team for better collaboration.

Examples

  • These progressive aims were not in contradiction to the humanities; rather, they were reattached to the Stoic values that saw education as self-forming and self-directed.

    Academic text (2014)

  • The committee voted to reattach the funding proposal to the original bill to streamline the approval process.

  • In fact, many parents who have removed their children from government schools have done so to reattach them to a civic idea.

    Academic text (1998)

  • You know, their behaviour is, is, is really trying to in a way reattach themselves to whoever they perceive to be their attachment group.

  • We can finally admit our total bankruptcy to God and beg Him to reattach us to our True Head, His living Word, on His terms.

    Blog text (7)

  • My solution is to force a change of the game—to take us back to first principles, to loosen the hold of bureaucrats and federal judges more concerned with appearances and, increasingly, "social justice," and in so doing, reattach the country to its founding Constitutional moorings.

    Blog text (7)

  • To improve efficiency, the manager will reattach the logistics team under the new operational framework.

Synonyms

to reassign
vsto reattach
74 4.1

Move a person to a different job or place of work within a company

moves an entire department between administrative authorities rather than a single person

Antonyms

to detach
16 3.9

To take something off from what it is connected to

How Attached

to absorb
217 3.0
to reattach
  • Formal
1 3.7
to merge
192 3.2

Surface Forms

reattach infinitive
reattached past
reattached past participle
reattaching present participle
reattaches third person singular

Morphology

reattach = attach (semi-transparent) = re + attach

The prefix 're-' is clear, but this administrative sense uses an abstract institutional extension of 'attach' rather than a literal physical joining.

Etymology

The word reattach comes from re- 'again' and attach 'to join or connect'. So, when we talk about organizations, reattach means to put a department or office back under the control of another group.