reorganization
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- n the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes)
a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum - n an extensive alteration of the structure of a corporation or government
after the takeover there was a thorough reorganization
the reorganization was prescribed by federal bankruptcy laws
- Rail reorganization, new style, is typified by the case of the Chicago Eastern Illinois.
- First reorganization of a major Class I carrier approved by ICC, this pro-bondholder plan is a far cry from most of those adopted before 1933's amendments to the Federal Bankruptcy .
- The pictures on this and the following pages, from his new book Migrations (Aperture; 431 pages; $100), are a portrait of what Salgado calls "the reorganization of the human family.