reintroduce

• re-introduce

From re- +‎ introduce.

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reintroduce (third-person singular simple present reintroduces, present participle reintroducing, simple past and past participle reintroduced)

1. (transitive) To introduce again.
   • 1992, Douglas Adams, chapter 13, in Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 118:

     Pretend it never happened. The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they’ve reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?

   • 1998, Jules L. Coleman, Markets, Morals, and the Law, page 321:

     […] whereas, were the masters to reintroduce slavery, both sides would return to the prebargain state, which would fall within the frontier and, therefore, would be inefficient.

   • 2001 June 1, R.M. Johnson, “On Exhibit: The Mountain Bike's Primitive Ancestors”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     It features equal-sized spoked hickory wheels, pneumatic tires, a chain drive, and an elliptical chain ring, something Japanese manufacturers reintroduced on bicycles in the late 1970s.

   • 2006, Dina Goldin, Scott A. Smolka, Peter Wegner, Interactive Computation: The New Paradigm, page 184:

     The present chapter reintroduces CL in a more compact and less technical way, being written in a semitutorial style with a wider computer science audience in mind.

   • 2011 November 29, Adam Werbach, “How a classic model of social commerce can teach the world how to save”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Slums like Dharavi are reintroducing this classic model of social commerce at an entirely new scale. Members of savings groups build assets individually and collectively, forming relationships of trust with their neighbors in the process.

   • 2012 June 1, Matthew Perpetua, “Original Green Lantern comes out as gay in DC Comics’ ‘Earth Two’”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     “Earth Two,” a new series by writer James Robinson and artist Nicola Scott, reintroduces the concept by putting a new spin on the original versions of characters like the Green Lantern, the Flash and Superman that diverges notably from the past several decades of DC lore.

   • 2017 March 2, James Masters, Laura Smith-Spark, and Lorenzo D'Agostino, “Sweden reintroduces conscription as tensions rise over Russia”, in CNN‎^[4]:

     Sweden has moved to reintroduce conscription “as a response to the new security situation” in Europe, the country’s defense minister told CNN Thursday.

   • 2021 May 21, Richard Clinnick, “Fleet News: SWR's termination of '442' refurbishment saves £24m”, in RAIL, number 931, page 29:

     SWR has decided to withdraw it with immediate effect and cease the programme of modifications that were under way, to avoid incurring further costs to the taxpayer to reintroduce and operate these trains.

• reintroducer
• reintroduction

• rereduction

reintroduce

1. third-person singular present indicative of reintrodurre

From re- +‎ introduce.

• IPA^(key): [reintroˈdutʃe]

a reintroduce (third-person singular present reintroduce, past participle reintrodus, third-person subjunctive reintroducă) 3rd conjugation

1. (transitive) to reintroduce, to restore

reintroduce

1. inflection of reintroducir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative