0 the process of changing your ideas or policies so that they are the same as those of another person or group; the result of this process:
This war will inevitably lead to a realignment of/within European politics.
The presidential election could play an important role in the state's realignment.
1 the act of putting something, or the fact of being put, into a new or correct position, or an instance of this:
2 the process of changing the way a company or organization works or does business:
The realignment comes at a time of rapid change in the online advertising market, as advances in technology create new opportunities for advertising.
realignment of sth They're making an effort to boost supply capacity amid a global realignment of the industry.
organizational/management/internal realignments
3 the process of changing the value of a currency compared to the value of other currencies or of changes in interest rates:
The company will not reveal the full scope of its manufacturing realignment for several months.
The financial crisis is likely to cause a radical realignment of the global economy.
She underwent surgery for a pelvic realignment earlier this year.
Even a relatively minor realignment of Greenwood Lake Turnpike has been immersed for years in the red tape of preliminary planning.
The movement or realignment of a body part to its normal position is known as reduction.
This process is accompanied by a vertical realignment of the vortex cores inside each layer.
The proposals include the realignment of the cemetery with the geometry of the church, and the creation of a new public space outside the convent.
