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re-arrange

re-arrange is the alternative form of rearrange.

Meaning of rearrange

Verb

rearrange (third-person singular simple present rearranges, present participle rearranging, simple past and past participle rearranged)

  1. (transitive) To change the order or arrangement of (one or more items).
    • With the extension of Piccadilly Line tube trains, the four tracks were rearranged for parallel working; tube trains run on the middle pair with no platforms at Stamford Brook and Chiswick Park, and District line trains use the outside lines.1944 March and April, “Elaborate London Transport Junctions”, in Railway Magazine, page 87

Forms of re-arrange

third-person singular presentre-arranges
present participlere-arranging
past participlere-arranged
pastre-arranged

Questions about re-arrange

What is re-arrange the alternative form of?
Re-arrange is the alternative form of rearrange.

Words near re-arrange in the dictionary

  1. re-appraisals
  2. re-architect
  3. re-architected
  4. re-architecting
  5. re-architects
  6. re-arrange
  7. re-arranged
  8. re-arrangement
  9. re-arrangements
  10. re-arranges
  11. re-arranging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-arrange (page history and authors); rearrange (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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