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: --
The presidential election could play an important role in the state's realignment.
This war will inevitably lead to a realignment of/within European politics.
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: --
organizational/management/internal realignments
realignment of sth They're making an effort to boost supply capacity amid a global realignment of the industry.
The realignment comes at a time of rapid change in the online advertising market, as advances in technology create new opportunities for advertising.
3 the process of changing the value of a currency compared to the value of other currencies or of changes in interest rates: --
In short, then, the data are consistent with the hypothesis that race precipitated a critical realignment.
These realignment periods can be seen as the opposite of all other periods, which are stable until realignment.
Secondly, there has been a racial realignment outside the region.
The realignment from refugee to evacuee thus recast the role of the state.
The realignment genre is an ideological vehicle for this understanding of history.
The validity of our conclusions may seem to depend on our particular formulation of realignment dynamics.
We believe that this simple relabeling entails a significant realignment of sociolinguistic studies of dialect.
All developing systems and subsystems are involved in continual alignment and realignment across ontogeny.
