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reconfigure

reconfigure verb: to arrange into a new configuration.

Verb

reconfigure (third-person singular simple present reconfigures, present participle reconfiguring, simple past and past participle reconfigured)

  1. To arrange into a new configuration.
    • In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2022, page 19
    • His district — which covers all but seven eastern Lancaster County municipalities along with Reading in Berks County and parts of western Chester County — was reconfigured to to ^([sic]) drop Berks and Chester while expanding to all of Lancaster County and adding southern York County.2018 October 21, Sam Janesch, “Meet Lloyd Smucker: Amish-born congressman seeking a second term on tax cuts and conservative record”, in Lancaster Online, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2022

Examples of reconfigure in a sentence

  • We really don't have time to waste in reconfiguring a post-pandemic effective and value-for-money railway.
  • On his return the team that faced Hull City had been reconfigured.
  • In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured.

All 15 example sentences with reconfigure

Forms of reconfigure

third-person singular presentreconfigures
present participlereconfiguring
past participlereconfigured
pastreconfigured

Past tense of reconfigure: reconfigured

Origin of reconfigure

From re- + configure.

Words formed from reconfigure

Questions about reconfigure

What does reconfigure mean?
Reconfigure means to arrange into a new configuration.
What part of speech is reconfigure?
Reconfigure is a verb.
What is the past tense of reconfigure?
The past tense of reconfigure is reconfigured.

Words near reconfigure in the dictionary

  1. reconfigurable
  2. reconfigurably
  3. reconfiguration
  4. reconfigurationism
  5. reconfigurations
  6. reconfigure
  7. reconfigured
  8. reconfigurer
  9. reconfigurers
  10. reconfigures
  11. reconfiguring

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