reconfigure

See also: reconfiguré

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ configure.

Verb

reconfigure (third-person singular simple present reconfigures, present participle reconfiguring, simple past and past participle reconfigured)

1. To arrange into a new configuration.
   • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:

     In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]

   • 2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Greater Anglia Award for the Best Entry for 2021: Derry”, in RAIL, number 946, page 54:

     Terrorist bombing in the 1970s wrecked this area, [...]. Now, more than 30 years on, Translink has been able to capitalise on the upswing in rail use to reconfigure the station as the North West Multimodal Transport Hub.

Related terms

• reconfiguration

Translations

arrange in a new configuration

• Italian: riconfigurare
• Norman: èrconfidguther

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: reconfigurent, reconfigures

Verb

reconfigure

1. inflection of reconfigurer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

reconfigure

1. inflection of reconfigurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative