0 past simple and past participle of realign
2 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.
Once realigned, subsequent rounds of elections should serve to consolidate the electoral territories of the two parties.
This misalignment of incentives is voided at higher levels of ownership and the interests of outside directors and stockholders become realigned.
The politics of famine realigned the landscape of authority and alliance in the southern highlands.
Because the socio-political order was no longer being aggressively realigned by royal authority, the use of force was less likely to degenerate into violence.
As different sectors of the local economy struggled to stave off the worst consequences of the depression, key social, economic and political relationships were realigned.
In response, several formal plant breeding programmes have realigned research priorities towards issues affecting poor farmers in marginal areas.
Together they molded labor's political choices and behavior and realigned its interests more closely with those of business.
Across the nation, hospitals, medical schools, and medical centers have realigned themselves to respond to these market forces.
