to reorient
- verb
- /ˌriːˈɔːrɪənt/
- After the unexpected challenges, she needed to reorient her plans for the project.
- reorient the economy
- reorient public policy
- reorient their strategy
It'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
Move your attention to something else
Move someone or something from one place to another
To change something so it is in the right position or works correctly
To move things or ideas into the right position
Adjust something so it is clear or pay attention to something again
Change what you pay attention to
To place or point something in a particular direction, for example toward the sun
To change direction in a business or project
To change something a little so it works better
To change the course or use of something
To adjust direction or focus after a change
To find your position and get used to a new place or situation
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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.