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restructure

/ɹiːˈstɹʌkt͡ʃə(ɹ)/US/ɹiˈstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/

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restructure verb: to change the organization of.

Verb

restructure (third-person singular simple present restructures, present participle restructuring, simple past and past participle restructured)

  1. To change the organization of.
    • On Tuesday, a proposal to fundamentally restructure the Minneapolis police department in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 was soundly defeated, a setback that even many Democrats acknowledged could be laid at the feet of the “defund the police” movement that some within the party embraced...2021 November 5, Chris Cillizza, “Even Democrats are now admitting ‘Defund the Police’ was a massive mistake”, in CNN
  2. To modify the terms of a loan, providing relief to a debtor who would otherwise be forced to default.
    • Valencia were in crisis, a club with two stadiums – one they could not sell and one that they could not afford to finish building – and a debt of €230m, the repayment of which was restructured.2017 January 18, Sid Lowe, “Chaos at Mestalla: Valencia's journey from Champions League to utter disarray”, in The Guardian

Noun

restructure (plural restructures)

  1. A reorganization.
    • We found this in the 1990s when organisations went through some fairly severe restructures.2009 March 24, Liam Walsh, “Suncorp remodel job risk”, in Herald Sun

restructure meaning in Tamil

restructure in Tamil

மறுசீரமைப்பு செய்ய

Examples of restructure in a sentence

  • The restructure resulted in the creation of a number of shared services.
  • Today we know now that learning literacy significantly rewires and restructures the brain.
  • Ek also announced some changes among Spotify’s executives as part of an effort to “restructure our organization.”

All 24 example sentences with restructure

Forms of restructure

Verb
third-person singular presentrestructures
present participlerestructuring
past participlerestructured
pastrestructured
Noun
pluralrestructures

Past tense of restructure: restructured

Origin of restructure

From re- + structure.

Words formed from restructure

Questions about restructure

What does restructure mean?
Restructure means to change the organization of.
What is restructure in Tamil?
Restructure in Tamil is மறுசீரமைப்பு செய்ய. See Restructure meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is restructure?
Restructure can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce restructure?
Restructure is pronounced /ɹiːˈstɹʌkt͡ʃə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the past tense of restructure?
The past tense of restructure is restructured.

Words near restructure in the dictionary

  1. restructurable
  2. restructural
  3. restructuralization
  4. restructuration
  5. restructurations
  6. restructure
  7. restructured
  8. restructurer
  9. restructurers
  10. restructures
  11. restructuring

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: restructure (page history and authors); restructure (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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