reconfigure

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verb

To arrange into a new configuration.

Less commonScrabble 17

Meanings

verbreconfigure (third-person singular simple present reconfigures, present participle reconfiguring, simple past and past participle reconfigured)

present singular third person reconfigures · participle present reconfiguring · participle past reconfigured · past reconfigured

  1. To arrange into a new configuration.

    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. […]

    2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2022, page 19
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    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.

    2018 October 21, Sam Janesch, “Meet Lloyd Smucker: Amish-born congressman seeking a second term on tax cuts and conservative record”, in Lancaster Online, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2022

    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.

    2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Greater Anglia Award for the Best Entry for 2021: Derry”, in RAIL, number 946, page 54

    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.

    2024 June 18, Spencer Klavan, “A Matter of Taste”, in The American Mind, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2024

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishconfigure
  7. Englishreconfigure

From re- + configure.

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Translations

Italian riconfigurare
  • riconfigurarearrange in a new configuration
Spanish reconfigurar
  • reconfigurararrange in a new configuration
Cite this entry
APA

reconfigure. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reconfigure

MLA

“reconfigure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reconfigure. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reconfigure,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reconfigure.

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