refounding
- noun
- /rɪˈfaʊndɪŋ/
- After years of decline, the board is focusing on the refounding of the organization to restore its original mission.
Because most people cannot be that sovereign because it's like an overnight plunge into refounding everything, OK.
- Because most people cannot be that sovereign because it's like an overnight plunge into refounding everything, OK.
Examples
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This shift corresponds to a displacement of the interpersonal by the objective, the refounding of dramatic tension, which will now be guaranteed by the situation rather than by a conflict between individuals.
Academic text (1996) -
Women Lasallian Volunteers are a small but significant part of the refounding of the Lasallian family in our century.
Blog text (33) -
The new book, check it out is the broken Constitution subtitle Lincoln, Slavery and the Refounding of America.
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Because most people cannot be that sovereign because it's like an overnight plunge into refounding everything, OK.
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That's why our little group, the ReFounding Father Society, is encouraging our members: big meeting tomorrow in Houston, Texas.
Blog text (5) -
The Pentecostal impact, because the Spirit acts, has to be regained, reappropriated, and reapplied from the human, ecclesial side, not in a refounding but in a renewal of the founding of the church on Pentecost.
Academic text (2008) -
The mayor announced plans for the refounding of the town's community center to revive local activities.
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The refounding of the university's mission will involve new leadership and updated goals for student engagement.
Synonyms
To start something again after it stops or after you change it
Making something exist or work again after it stopped
Bringing a group or organization back together after it ends
Bringing back a rule or practice after it stopped
To make something again in a new or better way
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word refounding comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and founding, from the verb 'to found' (seen in foundation and founder) meaning 'to set up' or 'lay a base'. So refounding is the act of setting something up again after it has ended, failed, or been changed.