Revirement

Meaning

reshuffle, process of refilling positions (especially when several are changed at once)

Concepts

cabinet reshuffle

job rotation

Synonyms

Umbesetzung

Translations

remaniement

reajuste ministerial

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʁevi(ː)ʁəˈmã/

Etymology

19th century, from French revirement (“sudden and drastic change”), from revirer (“turn a boat around”). The German semantic development suggests that it may have been associated with unrelated Latin vir (“man”), thus as it were “remanning”.