Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To bring back into use or existence.
- v. To restore to a previous condition or position.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To instate again; place again in possession or in a former state; restore to a state from which one had been removed.
- In fire insurance, to replace or repair (property destroyed or damaged).
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again.
WordNet 3.0
- v. restore to the previous state or rank
- v. bring back into original existence, use, function, or position
Etymologies
- re- + instate (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Thus we see that Bali3 was raised to the throne of Indra by destiny, and was also put down by the same power, and it is destiny only that call reinstate him.”
“However, Metro alleges that Aon did not notify the agency that it needed to pay added fees or exercise options to "reinstate" or "drop down coverage.”
The Washington Post: Metro sues Aon over post-crash insurance coverage gap
“In which case, Obama doesn't have to "reinstate" it.”
“The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has been ordered to "reinstate" and pay full benefits to a former employee found to have been unfairly dismissed, but who has since passed away.”
“After a Cabinet committee had looked at the Budget it decided to "reinstate" the amount to top up the R510,3 million already allocated.”
“I had to manually use the "reinstate" or something like that feature to put the emails back in (and recover all their stored email).”
“What's more, soon after the short-selling ban expired on Oct. 8, the American Bankers Association loudly demanded that the SEC "reinstate" the ban instantly if bank stock prices started going down again -- that is, if they started going down even more dramatically than they did during the ban”
“It may seem small compared with its $500 million budget, school board Chairwoman Barbara Murray says, but it could pay for 100 new teachers or reinstate summer school.”
“Senate ratified the agreement last December, Mr. Obama said New START will also reinstate inspections of both countries' strategic weapons.”
“This vote has done more than reinstate the two-term limit that was unjustly extended — it did what two previous referendums did not by prohibiting elected officials from ever awarding themselves extra terms.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Do That Again! ~~ "Re-verbs"
List of verbs that begin with re-, meaning to repeat a specific action or process - reappraise, for example.
I'm also looking for words like repeat, replenish and rescind whose roots d...repeat, rescind, reappraise, refinish, restripe, reapply, resupply, refurbish, reposition, reoffend, redistribute, recoat and 202 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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pop ups
erstwhile, allegiance, sacked, reinstate, vengeance, affluent, sedative, maverick, caricatives, abandoned, faux pas, ambience and 245 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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The Ghost Writer (2010)
Words from a 2010 'The Ghost Writer' film.
pulp, tether, blip, ramblings, coherent, monastic, leaflet, scrub, gauntlet, accomplice, sod, incite and 18 more...
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