to reorient
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5.6
- verb
- /ˌriːˈɔːrɪənt/
- After the unexpected challenges, she needed to reorient her plans for the project.
- reorient the economy
- reorient public policy
- reorient their strategy
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Watch on YouTubeIt's literally just reorienting to realize that symptoms are a gift.
- It's literally just reorienting to realize that symptoms are a gift.
- What we have to do is take our focus away from that drug and reorient it towards people's intentions.
- Cuts are can be very abrupt and kind of take time for the viewer to reorient themselves in a new scene.
- So you have a lot of time to recover, reorient yourself, and still have a very, very fulfilling life.
- And I want you to reorient your sense of pleasure to these longer term goals and not to these shorter term goals.
- So there's a huge opportunity to reorient our kids, a subset of our kids, to these great careers and great jobs.
Examples
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And I would say the next step is reorient yourself in the direction of your values or your goals.
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And then, bam, in the course of a month, we all decided, you know, to reorient our behavior.
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So I might actually have some time to, you know, reorient myself before getting into March.
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And so it was great to just kind of reorient ourselves.
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So, we have to reorient ourselves.
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I have to reorient myself.
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Sometimes it's OK to just kind of stop and, and, and reorient yourself with, with what's going on.
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Some of those groups and community leaders began to reorient their work toward the goals prescribed by the federal initiative.
Academic text (2001) -
In general, the United States should reorient assistance toward activities that will demilitarize Russian society.
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So there's a huge opportunity to reorient our kids, a subset of our kids, to these great careers and great jobs.
Synonyms
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1.0
Move your attention to something else
657
2.0
Move someone or something from one place to another
360
2.7
To change something so it is in the right position or works correctly
33
3.9
Adjust something so it is clear or pay attention to something again
31
4.9
To change direction in a business or project
26
4.9
To move things or ideas into the right position
24
3.8
Change what you pay attention to
8
3.9
To place or point something in a particular direction, for example toward the sun
2
7.8
To change something a little so it works better
2
6.5
To find your position and get used to a new place or situation
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6.0
To change the course or use of something
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6.3
To adjust direction or focus after a change
How Much
478
3.4
39
4.6
76
3.7
7
5.6
355
3.5
36
3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reorient comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and orient, which once meant 'to face the east' and now means 'direction', as in orientation. So, to reorient is to change your direction or focus again, like turning a map to the right way after you get lost.