0 to organize a company, business, or system in a new way to make it operate more effectively:
1 the process of organizing a company, business, or system in a new way to make it operate more effectively:
The department is currently undergoing a restructure.
Some employees may be offered alternative employment following an organizational restructure.
The restructure of the company is nearing completion and we are now in the final phase of this difficult process.
2 to change the jobs and responsibilities within an organization, usually in order to make the organization operate more effectively:
The commission developed guidelines for restructuring the city’s police department.
3 to organize a company, business, or system in a new way to make it operate more effectively:
The price has gone up and down amid talk of restructuring the company.
Retirees have had to accept drastically reduced retirement and health benefits as the industry has restructured.
The company may also have to restructure the way it processes transactions.
4 if a company restructures its debt, it arranges to pay back its debt in a different way or at a later time than was originally agreed:
The airline has announced a major restructure of its operations.
A management restructure saved the club from possible extinction.
It will be argued that multilingual education can only be successful if language teaching in general is restructured and oriented towards multilingual norms.
Words that are encountered many times or acquired early are more likely to become restructured than their rarer or later counterparts.
Recordings of older music can be restructured into new works to produce deliberate musical commentary on our past.
It then restructures the nested relation into a database of entries with associated organisms.
Options include changing the patient mix, reducing waste, reducing or eliminating nonessential functions, reducing capital expenditures, reducing or restructuring staff, or reducing salaries.
Indeed, the transition to corporatist arrangements is relatively advanced within a sector which has been forced to restructure in significant ways.