redesign
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redesign
- /ˌɹiː.dɪˈzaɪn/ UK
- /ˌɹi.dɪˈzaɪn/ Canada, US
- /ˌɹiː.dɪˈzɑen/ Australia
- [ˌɹiː.dəˈzɑe̯n] New Zealand
Rhymes with -aɪn
noun redesigns
- A plan for making changes to the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system so as to better serve the purpose of the original design, or to serve purposes different from those set forth in the original design. No UK company responded, believing that the availability requirement could not be reached in British operating conditions. But General Motors thought otherwise, offering its SD40-2 design. However, to make it fit the UK loading gauge, considerable redesign was required.
verb redesigns · redesigning · redesigned
- To lay out or plan a new version of something previously laid out or planned. It became clear at last that the secondary windings were not strong enough to withstand the severe electro-magnetic forces to which they had been subjected and that the transformer would have to be redesigned.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: re-engineer, retrofit, reconfiguration, reformatting, reorganization, rearrangement, restructuring, restructure, reorganisation, remodelling, rearrange, reordering, reshape, reshaping, retrofitting, reconfigure
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Talk about this word "redesign." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/redesign. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. redesign. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/redesign "redesign." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/redesign.Cite this
@misc{redesign_2026,
title = {redesign},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/redesign},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
