1 to change and improve the way a company works, the way a job is done, etc.:
We decided to re-engineer the way in which we process and distribute information.
They re-engineered the process to reduce bureaucracy.
Much of the tension produced was a result of these architects' desire to re-engineer social reality through design.
Indeed, they have rather preferred to re-engineer the robot surroundings so as to eliminate any source of possible unpredictability.
However, if one introduces a tax break to allow cars to run on bioethanol one would have fundamentally to re-engineer the engine of each car.
We should re-engineer what we do in this place, because we ought to be an example to the rest of the world.
We must re-engineer the way in which we deliver our services.
One then has to re-engineer the whole system of launching, supporting and recovering human beings in any such project on a low-risk basis.
Electronic networking allows companies to re-engineer their business processes by reorganising themselves to service their customers better.
There is a need to re-engineer higher education.