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▪ I. reˈshuffle, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To shuffle (cards, etc.) again; also, to redistribute (posts within a cabinet, organization, etc.).
1830‘Eidrah Trebor’ Hoyle Made Familiar 65 The cards must be re-shuffled. 1875‘Cavendish’ Round Games at Cards 8 If a card is exposed in cutting,..the pack must be re-shuffled. 1899Westm. Gaz. 13 June 1/2 You just defeat the Ministry, reshuffle the Portfolios, find a new head. 1963Ann. Reg. 1962 117 Chief Akintola proposed to reshuffle the Western Nigeria Development Corporation's management. 1973A. Mann Tiara iii. 18 The London correspondent of Messaggero thought the British Cabinet would be reshuffled.
▪ II. reshuffle, n.|riːˈʃʌf(ə)l, ˈriː-|
[f. the vb.]
The act of reshuffling. Used esp. to denote a redistribution of posts within a government or cabinet, etc.
1897Daily News 19 July 3/1 Queensland has been content with only seventeen shuffles or re-shuffles. 1922L. Woolf Downhill all Way (1967) i. 37, I feel that this is no time for a mere reshuffle of the ancient Conservative and Liberal Pack and for entrusting power to one or other of the two parties whose political principles and practice are directly responsible for the disastrous situation in which the country finds itself today. 1931A. L. Rowse Politics & Younger Generation x. 272 It [sc. the Tyrol] should be returned to Austria..at the first reshuffle in Europe. 1940H. Nicolson Diary 3 Apr. (1967) 65 We get over the telephone the final text of the Government reshuffle. 1947New Secondary Education (Ministry of Educ.) 10 Such reorganisation as could be effected in existing buildings by a ‘reshuffle’ of the children. 1953E. Simon Past Masters iv. i. 211 Nothing was ever done about the dry rot... Two rooms are involved... So another grand re⁓shuffle is at hand. 1955Daily Express 14 Oct. 1/5 (caption), I do wish the P.M. would make up his mind about the Cabinet reshuffle. 1965Listener 17 June 884/2 A reshuffle in the Fund's liabilities among the various depositors. 1976Liverpool Echo 22 Nov. 17/2 Moore went off injured..and it took them a good quarter of an hour to adjust to the enforced reshuffle. 1978J. R. L. Anderson Death in Greenhouse ii. 32 [He] was given his present job at the Foreign Office in the Government re-shuffle..last year. |