1 to change your ideas or policies so that they are the same as those of another person or group:
Several politicians left the party and realigned themselves with the opposition.
2 to change the way a company or organization works or does business:
Certain businesses are being realigned in order to strengthen capability in key strategic areas and to improve our customer services.
3 to change the value of a currency compared to the value of other currencies or of changes in interest rates:
realign sth with sth The UK government is facing pressure to realign prices with those in continental Europe.
The politics of famine realigned the landscape of authority and alliance in the southern highlands.
A new banana culture and the arrival of many more cattle realigned political power between the indigenous peoples - iron producers - and those identified with cattle keeping.
The reduction in mean shear caused by the step change to convex curvature may indicate that the vorticity of the large structures is realigned towards the streamwise direction.
When a road is closed, high priority should be given, once all the investigations have been carried out, to realigning it and reopening it.
When invalidity benefit is brought into tax, the rates of the pension will be realigned with those of the retirement pension.
The runways are to be realigned, affecting quite different people.
In realigning that bridge will he take note that the old bridge was much more direct than any possible proposal he has in mind?
There are obviously realigned priorities within that programme.
