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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reorientation

also re-orientation, 1893, from re- + orientation.

Wiktionary
reorientation

n. 1 A new orientation 2 The act of changing the direction of something

WordNet
reorientation
  1. n. a fresh orientation; a changed set of attitudes and beliefs

  2. the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented [syn: change of direction]

Usage examples of "reorientation".

This geographic reorientation displaced the centre of world gravity in a decisive manner.

Earth, were deprogrammed, and Floyt avoided radical reorientation, some new set of troubles would arise and run its course in one fashion or another.

The general, an engineer and not a scientist, was in charge of building the great A-4 rockets which the scientific genius, young Wernher von Braun, had devised, and the job was not an easy one, for whenever General Breutzl had a production line nicely started, Von Braun altered the specifications, requiring a complete reorientation of machines and men.

For those who joined as adults, reorientation into the "world" was always difficult, but for children raised in the cults, it was traumatic.

The president was not just talking about opposing threats, he was talking about a reorientation of American foreign and defense policy.

She had picked their spot in the shaft with an eye to reorientation, but she had not reckoned on any such startup.

Well, she was just going to have to make some drastic reorientations in her thinking.

They ate in thoughtful silence, each under pressing necessity of taking stock and reaching some reasonable reorientation.