Revirement

German

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”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁevi(ː)ʁəˈmã/, [ʁeˌviː.ʁəˈmãː], [ʁə-], [ˌʁɛ.vi-], [-ˈmɔ̃ː], [-ˈmaŋ], [-ˈmɔŋ]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Revirement n (strong, genitive Revirements, plural Revirements)

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

   Synonyms: Umbesetzung, Personalaustausch, Personalwechsel, Rochade

   Nach Aufdeckung des Skandals gab es ein großes Revirement.

   When the scandal had been revealed, there was a great reshuffle.

Declension

Declension of Revirement [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Revirement	die	Revirements
genitive	eines	des	Revirements	der	Revirements
dative	einem	dem	Revirement	den	Revirements
accusative	ein	das	Revirement	die	Revirements