reintroduce

See also: re-introduce

English

Alternative forms

• re-introduce

Etymology

From re- +‎ introduce.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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.

   • 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.

Related terms

• reintroducer
• reintroduction

Translations

introduce again

• Catalan: reintroduir
• French: réintroduire (fr)
• Galician: reintroducir (gl)
• Italian: reintrodurre
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjeninnføre (no)

• Portuguese: reintroduzir
• Spanish: reintroducir
• Swedish: återinföra (sv)

Anagrams

• rereduction

Italian

Verb

reintroduce

1. third-person singular present indicative of reintrodurre

Romanian

Etymology

From re- +‎ introduce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [reintroˈdutʃe]

Verb

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

1. (transitive) to reintroduce, to restore

Conjugation

    conjugation of reintroduce (third conjugation, past participle in -s)

infinitive			a reintroduce
gerund			reintroducând
past participle			reintrodus
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	reintroduc	reintroduci	reintroduce	reintroducem	reintroduceți	reintroduc
	imperfect	reintroduceam	reintroduceai	reintroducea	reintroduceam	reintroduceați	reintroduceau
	simple perfect	reintrodusei	reintroduseși	reintroduse	reintroduserăm	reintroduserăți	reintroduseră
	pluperfect	reintrodusesem	reintroduseseși	reintrodusese	reintroduseserăm	reintroduseserăți	reintroduseseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să reintroduc	să reintroduci	să reintroducă	să reintroducem	să reintroduceți	să reintroducă
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		reintrodu			reintroduceți
	negative		nu reintroduce			nu reintroduceți

Spanish

Verb

reintroduce

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