restructuring
The airline has announced a major restructure of its operations.
A management restructure saved the club from possible extinction.

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admin
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bronze command
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restructure | American Dictionary

restructure
verb[ T ]
us/riˈstrʌk·tʃər/
to change the jobs and responsibilities within an organization, usually in order to make the organization operate more effectively:
The commission developed guidelines for restructuring the city’s police department.

restructure | Business English

restructure
verb
uk /ˌriːˈstrʌktʃər/us
[ I or T ] MANAGEMENT, WORKPLACE
to organize a company, business, or system in a new way to make it operate more effectively:
The price has gone up and down amid talk of restructuring the company.
Retirees have had to accept drastically reduced retirement and health benefits as the industry has restructured.
The company may also have to restructure the way it processes transactions.
[ T ] FINANCE
if a company restructures its debt, it arranges to pay back its debt in a different way or at a later time than was originally agreed:
The merger will provide a means of restructuring the company's debt.
Talks continue about restructuring a £220 million bond, which is due to be repaid in January.

Examples of restructure

restructure
It will be argued that multilingual education can only be successful if language teaching in general is restructured and oriented towards multilingual norms.
Words that are encountered many times or acquired early are more likely to become restructured than their rarer or later counterparts.
Recordings of older music can be restructured into new works to produce deliberate musical commentary on our past.
It then restructures the nested relation into a database of entries with associated organisms.
Options include changing the patient mix, reducing waste, reducing or eliminating nonessential functions, reducing capital expenditures, reducing or restructuring staff, or reducing salaries.
Indeed, the transition to corporatist arrangements is relatively advanced within a sector which has been forced to restructure in significant ways.
To be understandable, the latter phrase has to be restructured into information systems which are used for managing public supply chains.
Businesses were encouraged to steer their employees into more restrictive health plans by mandate and through restructuring their financial incentives.
The new emotion restructured the relationships between physiological and psychological for ms of knowledge, and purged the physiological laboratory of affect.
Such actions both restructure discourse and coercively alter the social relations in which discourse is situated.
Over the years the government has attempted to restructure or replace these self-governing institutions.
Routine experience was also to be restructured in such a way as to make individual tenure acceptable.
The financial inducement is clearly intended to produce exits from employment in order to restructure the workforce.
Again there is officially no break-off criterion, but as with the sentence understanding tasks we did use a break-off criterion on the restructured task.
Likewise, the restructuring phase might reflect the emergence of the prosodic domain of phrasal stress.
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