Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of confining in prison a second time for the same cause, or after a release from prison.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
imprisonment again or anew
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Examples
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Arrests for sex work can lead to a cycle of continued exclusion from housing and other job opportunities, and to reimprisonment.
Michelle Chen: Sex Workers (Try to) Enter the Human Rights Arena Michelle Chen 2010
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Arrests for sex work can lead to a cycle of continued exclusion from housing and other job opportunities, and to reimprisonment.
Michelle Chen: Sex Workers (Try to) Enter the Human Rights Arena Michelle Chen 2010
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Arrests for sex work can lead to a cycle of continued exclusion from housing and other job opportunities, and to reimprisonment.
Michelle Chen: Sex Workers (Try to) Enter the Human Rights Arena Michelle Chen 2010
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Arrests for sex work can lead to a cycle of continued exclusion from housing and other job opportunities, and to reimprisonment.
Michelle Chen: Sex Workers (Try to) Enter the Human Rights Arena Michelle Chen 2010
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Arrests for sex work can lead to a cycle of continued exclusion from housing and other job opportunities, and to reimprisonment.
Michelle Chen: Sex Workers (Try to) Enter the Human Rights Arena Michelle Chen 2010
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A paradigmatic text in this regard is the television series Gilligan's Island, whose seventy-two episodes constitute a master-narrative of imprisonment, escape, and reimprisonment which eerily encodes a Lacanian construct of compulsive reenact-ment within a Foucaultian scenario of a panoptic social order in which resistance to power is merely one of the forms assumed by power itself.
Morton on Imprisonment and Escape on L'Isle de Gilligan Mary L. Dudziak 2009
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Mr. Michnik's reimprisonment, so suddenly, obviously belies this view.
An Open Letter to General Jaruzelski Arrow, Kenneth J. 1985
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Journalists who are reporting the reimprisonment of James Bulger's killer were called
Home | Mail Online 2010
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It lauded Ireland's commitment to take two Uzbek men who would likely face torture and reimprisonment if sent back.
ajc.com - News 2009
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It lauded Ireland's commitment within the next two months to take two Uzbek men, who would likely face torture and reimprisonment if sent back.
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