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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reshuffle
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cabinet reshuffle (=when members of a cabinet are given a different job)
▪ Putin promoted his Defence Minister in a surprising cabinet reshuffle.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
extensive
▪ Cabinet changes to June 1991 For extensive government reshuffle in April 1991 see p. 38207.
▪ His faltering authority was demonstrated in December when an extensive Cabinet reshuffle was forced upon him by factional leaders.
major
▪ Last night there were growing calls for a major government reshuffle and anger at the way the crisis had been provoked.
▪ Military reshuffle A major military reshuffle was carried out on Sept. 9 involving 557 senior officers down to the level of colonel.
▪ On Feb. 26 Compaore announced a major Cabinet reshuffle.
▪ Mahathir said that there would not be a major Cabinet reshuffle.
▪ Reshuffle of state governors - Resignation of government in Pondicherry A major reshuffle of state governors was announced on Dec. 14.
military
Military reshuffle A major military reshuffle was carried out on Sept. 9 involving 557 senior officers down to the level of colonel.
▪ The military reshuffle carried out in October and November was largely aimed at removing officers who had close links with the Yangs.
▪ The changes anticipated the annual military reshuffle due in September.
minor
▪ Cabinet reshuffle Presidential decrees at the end of May effected a minor Cabinet reshuffle.
■ NOUN
cabinet
▪ He is pinning some hope on a cabinet reshuffle.
▪ A Cabinet reshuffle on June 14, 1989, resulted in few significant changes.
▪ A cabinet reshuffle will probably happen this summer.
▪ The affair led to a mid-term Cabinet reshuffle on Aug. 2 in an attempt to diffuse the political damage.
▪ On Feb. 26 Compaore announced a major Cabinet reshuffle.
■ VERB
announce
▪ On Dec. 23 Alia announced a reshuffle of key economic portfolios in an effort to tackle the country's economic crisis.
▪ On Feb. 26 Compaore announced a major Cabinet reshuffle.
carry
▪ Cabinet changes Roh carried out a Cabinet reshuffle on March 30, replacing four of his Ministers.
▪ Cabinet changes in 1990-91 President Gayoom carried out a Cabinet reshuffle on May 30, 1990.
see
▪ Cabinet changes to June 1991 For extensive government reshuffle in April 1991 see p. 38207.
▪ The reshuffle was widely seen as an attempt to deflect allegations of corruption.
▪ However, a few minutes was all he got as a reshuffle at half-time saw him replaced by Kenny Miller.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Major policy changes are expected from the corporate reshuffle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gloucester's major acquisitions in the reshuffle of 1471 lay in the north.
▪ I was asked my views on the reshuffle.
▪ Mr Major has let it be known privately that the chancellor will not be moved in the New Year reshuffle.
▪ On Feb. 26 Compaore announced a major Cabinet reshuffle.
▪ The £500,000 deal taking David Kerslake to Leeds went through this morning, so there has to be a reshuffle.
▪ The military reshuffle carried out in October and November was largely aimed at removing officers who had close links with the Yangs.
▪ This Cabinet was itself subject to a reshuffle on Sept. 17.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reshuffle

1816 of cards; 1890 of organizations; from re- "back, again" + shuffle (v.). Related: Reshuffled; reshuffling. As a noun from 1861.

Wiktionary
reshuffle

n. an instance of reshuffling, a reorganization vb. 1 to shuffle something again, especially playing cards 2 to reorganize or rearrange something, especially government posts

WordNet
reshuffle
  1. n. a redistribution of something; "there was a reshuffle of cabinet officers"

  2. shuffling again; "the gambler demanded a reshuffle" [syn: reshuffling]

  3. v. shuffle again; "So as to prevent cheating, he was asked to reshuffle the cards"

  4. reorganize and assign posts to different people; "The new Prime Minister reshuffled his cabinet"

Usage examples of "reshuffle".

The most astonishing thing was that her conception of the cosmos was basically the same as the one I had sketched out back at Cal Tech, an infinite number of anthropic universes shuffling and reshuffling, combining on a quantum level.

But he still had some horseflesh to reshuffle, Iona MacSorley had issued a standing invitation, and that paint would still be out at the Lazy B.

The old man was evidently contemplating a reshuffling of his entire force, no minor affair.

With that sort of reshuffling at the top and this sudden access to new and fantastic information .

Most attention is given to reshuffling the particularities of the family relationships among the characters and the external motivations of the plot intrigues.

Although Czernick denied the reshuffling has anything to do with recent press criticism of some police operations, knowledgeable observers believe this to be the case.

He pushed aside heaps of dead paperwork, reshuffling bits of it almost without noticing.

But an additional instructor added at this time could cause a reshuffling of allegiances and a resultant upset in the neat balance of power.

The fiction that this was due only to a reshuffling following the collapse of the Gorlot Regency was not fooling many, but it kept hysteria under control.

They took turns at it, arranging sleeping hours so that only half the personnel was on deck at any one time and then reshuffling the groups so that there was a change of faces.

Woloda, hunching one shoulder after the manner of Papa, and reshuffling the cards.

Just as it will be for that reason that I am going to carry through a systematic reshuffling of all StateSec assignments here in La Martine Sector.

They shuffled and reshuffled them, dropped them like spillikins and watched how they fell.

Just as it will be for that reason that I am going to carry through a systematic reshuffling of all StateSec assignments here in La Martine Sector.

After the old man had left, there was a certain amount of reshuffling in the barbershop pod.