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Definition of Reshuffle

1. Verb. Shuffle again. "So as to prevent cheating, he was asked to reshuffle the cards"

2. Noun. A redistribution of something. "There was a reshuffle of cabinet officers"

3. Verb. Reorganize and assign posts to different people. "The new Prime Minister reshuffled his cabinet"

4. Noun. Shuffling again. "The gambler demanded a reshuffle"

Definition of Reshuffle

1. Verb. to shuffle something again, especially playing cards ¹

2. Verb. to reorganize or rearrange something, especially government posts ¹

3. Noun. an instance of reshuffling, a reorganization. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reshuffle

1. shuffle [v -FLED, -FLING, -FLES] - See also: shuffle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reshuffle

reshook reshoot reshooting reshoots reshoring reshot reshow reshowed reshower reshowered

reshowering reshowers reshowing reshown reshows reshuffle (current term) reshuffled reshuffler reshufflers reshuffles

reshuffling reshufflings resiance resiances resiant resiants resiaunt resid reside resided

Literary usage of Reshuffle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Democratisation Process in Zanzibar: A Retarded Transition by Mohammed Ali Bakari (2001)
"reshuffle of Executive Posts in the Government On April 13, 1999, a few weeks after the executives of the Zanzibar government voiced their opinions before ..."

2. State of the Nation: Thailand by Suchit Bunbongkarn (1997)
"As Prime Minister, General Prem occasionally intervened hi the appointment or reshuffle. But the intervention was tolerated because Prem was the former army ..."

3. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"down on the Congress table, for a reshuffle, but can it be argued in justice that any such reshuffle should take place without ascertaining in some way or ..."

4. New York Times Current History (1916)
"down on the Congress table for a reshuffle, but can it be argued in justice that any such reshuffle should take place without ascertaining in some way or ..."

5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"When a player whose duty it is to cut has onre separated the pack, he cannot alter his intention ; he can neither reshuffle nor reçut the ..."

6. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1879)
"It was then found to be impossible to meet the full unified debt charges due in the following January; and so, what we may call reshuffle No. i was devised. ..."

7. China as Described by Great Writers by Esther Singleton (1912)
"... it must be explained, were simply a reshuffle of the ancient ... just as the Turks were a reshuffle of the ancient ..."

8. China, Past and Present by Edward Harper Parker (1903)
"... it must be explained, were simply a reshuffle of the ancient ... just as the Turks were a reshuffle of the ancient ..."

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