reorient

verb

re·ori·ent (ˌ)rē-ˈȯr-ē-ˌent

reoriented; reorienting

transitive verb

: to orient (someone or something) again or differently: such as

: to change the orientation or direction of (something or someone)

reorient the antenna

reoriented herself so she was facing north

: to reacquaint (someone, especially oneself) with a situation, environment, etc.

woke up and reoriented myself to my surroundings

… returning servicewomen and men struggling to reorient themselves to civilian life.—

Molly Callahan

: to change the goal or emphasis of (something or someone)

… I stumbled into motherhood and was bewildered at … the volte-face required to reorient myself, my values and my way of life …—

Madeleine Bunting

… lacks nearly every resource necessary to reorient its archaic industrial economy …—

David Remnick

The long-term potential of vast databases of genomic data to … reorient the debate on medical priorities …—

Larry Downes and Paul Nunes

also : to direct (something) toward the interests of a different group

… reorienting its policy priorities to the working class. —

Franklin Foer

reorientation

(ˌ)rē-ˌȯr-ē-ən-ˈtā-shən

-ˌen-

noun

plural reorientations

Many soldiers also find blogging a useful way to help deal with reorientation to civilian life … —

Brad Knickerbocker

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Amazon is reorienting its famous assistant around LLMs. —

Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2024 To be fair, Trump's Pentagon—with Secretaries Jim Mattis and Mark Esper at the helm—usefully reoriented America's national defense strategy to prioritize great power competition with China and Russia, after a generation of focusing primarily on rogue states and terrorists. —

Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024 The Ford Foundation, having already reoriented its giving around inequality in 2015, joined in. —

Andrew Prokop, Vox, 15 Oct. 2024 The memo and Vance’s appearances, which laid out some of the GOP’s main lines of attack on Harris, reflected how much Trump and his allies have been forced to regroup and reorient their strategy in the wake of Biden’s exit. —

Toluse Olorunnipa, Washington Post, 22 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for reorient