to reconceive
- verb
- /ˌriːkənˈsiːv/
- After the changes in management, the company decided to reconceive its marketing strategy entirely.
- reconceived theology
- needs to be reconceived
Scientific method has had to be reconceived over time.
- Scientific method has had to be reconceived over time.
- Goods, rules and virtues, as a result of such fragmentation, are reconceived as isolable from one another.
Examples
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Incidental details may become important in a process of reconceiving or reclassifying the moral nature of an action.
Academic text (1990) -
But how, specifically, should social studies content be reconceived for student-centered learning?
Academic text (2002) -
That forces you to reconceive reality like all art should.
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Scientific method has had to be reconceived over time.
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Yet democracy has changed also; the ends of political life have been reconceived in recent years.
Academic text (1993) -
I suggest that the task of Roman Catholic ethics needs to be reconceived.
Academic text (1990) -
Or might we, by reconceiving our approach, contribute to the reinvigoration of civic life?
Academic text (2000) -
The central point here is that some entitlements that have historically been linked to employment should be reconceived, and their funding mechanisms reconfigured so that they do not tax and discourage the employment of human labor.
Academic text (2018) -
The team had to reconceive their project after receiving feedback from the client.
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In order to stay relevant, artists often need to reconceive their work for a modern audience.
Synonyms
To picture something in your mind, often a possible future
To make up an idea, plan, or excuse
Change the way you think about something to see it in a better way
To form a picture in your mind of something not present
To explain something again in a different way to give it a new meaning
Think of something in a new way
To think about something in a new way
To change and improve an idea, plan, or computer program
To make a new plan after changes or problems
To place something in a new context so people see it differently
How Different
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reconceive joins re- meaning 'again' and conceive meaning 'to form an idea', the same root as concept. So, to reconceive is to think about or plan something again in a new way.