reshuffle
Redistribute the cards
To reshuffle is to rearrange or reorganize, especially by reassigning roles or positions.
The term appears most often in politics, where a cabinet reshuffle moves ministers to different portfolios: The prime minister reshuffled her cabinet after the scandal.
The word derives from shuffling cards—mixing them into a new order.
As a noun, a reshuffle is such a reorganization: The company announced a management reshuffle.
Rearrange fundamental organization
- rearrangeAlter the sequence
- redistributeApportion anew among parties
- reallocateAssign to different uses
- reconfigureAlter system arrangement
overhaul · reorder · redeploy · reassign · streamline · optimize · shake-up · revamp
Mix into disorder
- jumbleConfused disorderly collection
- mixCombine different elements
- reorderArrange again or replenish
- permutationArrangement in specific order
rearrangement · lottery · selection · draw · rotation · blind · arbitrary · chance
Enclosed storage furniture
- ministryClergy's work or state department
- portfolioCollected works or assets
- appointmentScheduled time for something
- demotionReduction in status
promotion · replacement · ousting · successor · government · leadership · coalition · party
restructure
Rearrange fundamental organization
- rearrangeAlter the sequence
- redistributeApportion anew among parties
- reallocateAssign to different uses
reconfigure · overhaul · reorder · redeploy · reassign · streamline · optimize · shake-up · revamp · reposition
scramble
Mix into disorder
permutation · rearrangement · lottery · selection · draw · rotation · blind · arbitrary · chance · random
cabinet
Enclosed storage furniture
- ministryClergy's work or state department
- portfolioCollected works or assets
- appointmentScheduled time for something
demotion · promotion · replacement · ousting · successor · government · leadership · coalition · party · faction
deck
Ship's flat surface
hand · bridge · poker · solitaire · rummy · canasta · euchre · whist · cribbage · hearts
- reorganizationreorganize, restructure, rearrange, realign, reorder
- reorganizingrearranging, restructuring, regrouping, reordering, reconfiguring
- UK PoliticsHouse of Commons, House of Lords, MP, Tory, Downing Street
- rearrangementsrearrangement, reorder, permutation, transpose, swap
- shakeupsshakeup, shake-up, reorganization, restructuring, overhaul
- shuffleriffle, overhand, faro, wash, mix
reshufflemaintain
Keep in condition
preserve · leave alone · keep · retain · stabilize
reshuffleorganize
Put into systematic order
systematize · order · arrange · sort · structure
reshufflestand pat
Refuse to change
stay the course · do nothing · leave well enough alone · hold · keep
- cabinet reshuffleReassigning ministerial positions