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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
restructure
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
radically
▪ A business rate will also be levied, but both these two components of local authority finance will be radically restructured.
■ NOUN
business
▪ The reduction in turnover, tight margins and the necessity to cut costs has made it necessary to restructure the business.
▪ Through restructuring and reengineering, business memory cells are dispersing.
▪ Non-redundancy dismissals By no means every dismissal occasioned by the need to restructure the business or to make economies is due to redundancy.
▪ It also said it might take a charge of as much as $ 25 million to restructure part of its business.
▪ The second was a report on restructuring the business in the run-up to privatisation.
▪ It was decided that a major restructuring of the business base was in order.
company
▪ The company expects to record restructuring and special charges.
▪ Reorganisation and mergers 2. Company restructuring or retrenchment due to changing market conditions 3.
▪ The company said further restructuring plans could follow this announcement but declined to elaborate.
▪ But it is certain companies asking bankers to restructure loans will never return to former carefree days.
▪ In 1990, the company restructured its operation, and the individual names were phased out.
debt
▪ I offered my thanks to Oliver, and even suggested some debt restructuring by way of gratitude, but he just shrugged it off.
▪ Corimon said yesterday it would sell all of its foreign operations and seek debt restructuring to turn its faltering business around.
▪ The offer depends upon its debt being restructured successfully.
economy
▪ This can only be said of the restructuring of our economy.
▪ Is there a way to restructure the traditional feminine economy so that an economically rational person could choose the caretaking roles?
▪ Profound technological developments have already critically restructured the economies of developed societies from the production of things to the production of knowledge.
government
▪ Although it is too early to do little more than guess, Lockyer said, a second area might be government restructuring.
industry
▪ The government had on Dec. 2 announced its plans to restructure the coal industry.
market
▪ This trend is likely to continue, restructuring the job market into two distinct tiers.
▪ The supply of potentially convertible properties is increasing with manufacturing decline, restructuring of the office market and changes in retail patterns.
million
▪ It also said it might take a charge of as much as $ 25 million to restructure part of its business.
▪ A $ 152 million restructuring charge made net income in the 1994 quarter $ 179 million, or 61 cents.
operation
▪ In 1990, the company restructured its operation, and the individual names were phased out.
▪ Since then, they have restructured virtually their entire operation around the needs of their customers.
part
▪ As part of the restructuring, the fund will hire about 18 new investment managers.
▪ D operations as part of an ongoing restructuring.
▪ As part of the corporate restructuring of the 1980s, May sold Caldor in 1989 and then spun off Venture in 1990.
plan
▪ The government had on Dec. 2 announced its plans to restructure the coal industry.
▪ Bonnet was known to be opposed to the government's plans to restructure the army.
▪ In November 1911 Chapman added his own voice to many others suggesting plans for restructuring the entire league system.
system
▪ This was designed before the onset of destabilization, and aimed to restructure the formal school system.
▪ Ohio has restructured its community college system so that no resident lives more than twenty minutes away from a local institution.
▪ It was supposed that the critical role of knowledge work in this new style enterprise would necessitate the restructuring of administrative systems.
▪ In November 1911 Chapman added his own voice to many others suggesting plans for restructuring the entire league system.
■ VERB
begin
▪ States began to restructure their most expensive public systems: education, health care, and welfare.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If the company is to survive, it must be seriously restructured.
▪ In the coming years a lot of money will go into restructuring the education system.
▪ Mr Gorbachev's attempt to restructure the Soviet economy met with criticism from traditional communists.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And she is expected to accelerate restructuring.
▪ How can health services be restructured to meet the needs of ageing populations more appropriately?
▪ Short-term costs of restructuring the banks would be enormous.
▪ The restructuring charge in the 1994 fourth quarter made net income $ 1. 30 billion, or $ 4. 60.
▪ The force will be renamed and restructured to increase its 8 % representation of Roman Catholics.
▪ The government had on Dec. 2 announced its plans to restructure the coal industry.
▪ Three quarters of its restructuring is completed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
restructure

1951, from re- "back, again" + structure (v.). Related: Restructured; restructuring.

Wiktionary
restructure

vb. To change the organization of.

WordNet
restructure

v. construct or form anew or provide with a new structure; "After his accident, he had to restructure his life"; "The governing board was reconstituted" [syn: reconstitute]

Usage examples of "restructure".

So they restructure the entire mass of their star system into a free-flying shell of nanocomputers, then more of them, Dyson spheres, shells within shells, like a Russian doll: a Matrioshka brain.

Passing through it tonight, restructuring it, Eddie Pensiero is an agent of History.

Now, after a long period of confinement, undergoing resocialization and personality restructuring, he has been allowed back into the City.

The Shrouders were little better, secretive minds cocooned inside shells of restructured spacetime.

From manufacturing to large-scale industry, from finance capital to transnational restructuring and the globalization of the market, it is always the initiatives of organized labor power that determine the figure of capitalist development.

Roger Cortland stood with those restructuring the past as Marissa Correa stood with those remaking the future.

He took over the campus literary magazine when old Coxwell died, restructured the staff to tremendous effect, and figured out a way to get the printing done at half cost.

The declining effectiveness of the Bretton Woods mechanisms and the decomposition of the monetary system of Fordism in the dominant countries made it clear that the reconstruction of an international system of capital would have to involve a comprehensive restructuring of economic relations and a paradigm shift in the definition of world command.

The restructuring of production, from Fordism to post-Fordism, from modernization to postmodernization, was anticipated by the rise of a new subjectivity.

In many ways, rads were polar opposites to Perkinites, pushing for empowerment of the var underclass through restructuring all of the rules, political and biological.

That the corporation was undergoing a restructuring and that I could apply for reemployment later.

Far from being unidimensional, the process of restructuring and unifying command over production was actually an explosion of innumerable different productive systems.

This would require dramatically altering the sanctions to choke off the smuggling to Iraq, finding a way to restore the inspectors to Iraq and allow them to do their job for as long as it takes, restructuring the U.

Yet no one had officially regrouped the legions into cohorts rather than maniples, or restructured its centurion hierarchy to deal with cohorts rather than maniples.

The bottles held the nutrients to supplement the bath in its sustaining of the patient while cells gained a pseudoembryonic malleability, tissues and organs reshaped, and the body restructured itself to obey new blueprints.