reconfigure
/ɹˌikənfˈɪɡjɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.57 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To arrange into a new configuration.
Example Sentences
- "In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]"
- "His district — which covers all but seven eastern Lancaster County municipalities along with Reading in Berks County and parts of western Chester County — was reconfigured to to ^([sic]) drop Berks and Chester while expanding to all of Lancaster County and adding southern York County."
- "Terrorist bombing in the 1970s wrecked this area, [...]. Now, more than 30 years on, Translink has been able to capitalise on the upswing in rail use to reconfigure the station as the North West Multimodal Transport Hub."
- "Many earnest consumers on the Right feel so legitimately embattled by the nonstop streaming feed of hate speech and psyoppery directed at them that they think they have no choice but to reconfigure their artistic sensibilities accordingly."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English configure English reconfigure From re- + configure.