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reˌorienˈtation
[re- 5 a.]
The action or process of reorienting; a fresh orientation.
1920Contemp. Rev. July 6 There will be needed a great collaboration of wisely directed effort at home, combined with an entire reorientation of attitude and policy on the part of the Allies. 1938Burlington Mag. May 248/2 He seems to minimize the imposition of sartorial forms by commercial dictation, surely more often the cunning contrivance of change for change's profitable sake than the concrete expression of social reorientations. 1942L. B. Namier Conflicts 16 Far-seeing statesmen discerned the need of such a reorientation. 1951R. Firth Elem. Soc. Organization iii. 110 This is represented..by a re-orientation of resources in goods or labour power. 1967G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 83 Many reorientations, many ways of ordering and choosing are available to scholarship and the imagination. 1977P. Baelz Ethics & Belief vi. 74 Different religions give different answers to this question, all of them involving both a reorientation of insight and understanding and a new pattern of action. |