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reposition
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun reposition has 1 sense
- reposition(n = noun.act) repositing, storage, warehousing - depositing in a warehouse; "they decided to reposition their furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn"; "my car is in storage"; "publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing" is a kind of deposit, deposition
has particulars: stockpiling
Derived form verb reposit1
Verb reposition has 2 senses
- reposition(v = verb.motion) dislodge, shift - change place or direction; "Shift one's position" is one way to displace, move
- reposition(v = verb.contact) Array - place into another position; Array is one way to lay, place, pose, position, put, set
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Derived form noun repositioning1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
reposition, n. [L. repositio.].
The act of repositing; a laying up. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
reposition, v.
1 tr. move or place in a different position.
2 intr. adjust or alter one's position.
1 tr. move or place in a different position.
2 intr. adjust or alter one's position.
ROGET THESAURUS
reposition
Location
N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.
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