reshufflenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈriːˌʃʌf.əl/us/ˈriːˌʃʌf.əl/mainly UK US usually shufflean occasion when the positions of people or things within a particular group are changed:
They expect a Cabinet reshuffle in the summer.
a government/management reshuffle
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UK politics: government administration & organisation
- awkward
- backbench
- bench
- collectivization
- D-notice
- decentralize
- loyalist
- maladministration
- midterm
- Number Ten
- ombudsman
- order paper
- policy
- positive vetting
- privatize
- prorogue
- public
- soviet
- Westminster
- whip
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reshuffleverb [ T ]
uk/ˌriːˈʃʌf.əl/us/ˌriːˈʃʌf.əl/to change the positions of people or things within a particular group:
to reshuffle the deck/cards
The prime minister is expected to reshuffle his ministerial team next month.
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Changing
- a new broom sweeps clean idiom
- about-turn
- alter
- alternate
- alternation
- bastardize
- convert
- move on
- move the goalposts idiom
- move with the times idiom
- new
- new broom
- onto
- reverse
- swing
- transform
- transitional
- transmogrify
- transmute
- turn (sb/sth) into sb/sth
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