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Definition: Reestablish |
ReestablishVerb1. Bring back into its original existence or use; "restore law and order"; "reestablish peace in the region". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reestablish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonyms: ReestablishSynonyms: reinstate (v), restore (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Restoration | Restore, put back, place in statu quo; reinstate, replace, reseat, rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate, reinstall. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Reestablish |
| English words defined with "reestablish": Reestate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reestablish": advance to contact ♦ netlag ♦ Small Hog Operation Payment. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. An abandoned road within the Reserve was restored to its original wetlands elevation to reestablish sheetflow and tidal flushing. Within a few months of the restoration, the recolonization of native wetlands had begun.Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Indonesia | Dutch efforts to reestablish complete control met strong resistance. (references) |
Somalia | Efforts by the Transitional National Government to reestablish a regular armed force have made little progress. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | Legislative elections were scheduled for December 2000 to reestablish the National Assembly that General Guei had dissolved. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | State security forces were unable to reestablish control for 17 hours. (references) |
Trade | Georgia | In 1997 the IFC co-financed a loan with the EBRD to the Georgian Glass and Mineral Water Co. to reestablish "Borjomi" as the leading mineral water brand in the country. (references) |
Worker Rights | Zimbabwe | In recent years, the ZCTU pressed the Government to reestablish a national minimum wage, but Government had not done so by year's end. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Reestablish" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 95.24% of the time. "Reestablish" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 95.24% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
reestablish credit | 49 |
reestablish credit credit card | 9 |
reestablish credit debt consolidation | 8 |
reestablish | 7 |
reestablish credit card | 5 |
after bankruptcy credit reestablish | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "reestablish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أعاده الى سابق عهده, أعاد التأهيل (rehabilitate), أعاد (bring round, carry back, get back, give back, go over, iterate, keep, push out, put back, remit, repay, repeat, resit, restart, restore, return, revert, send back, take back, throw back), رجع (assign, back, come back, cut back, get back, give back, go back, pass back, rebound, reconsider, reinstate, render, report back, resound, retreat, return, reverse, revert, send back, snap back, step back, turn, turn back, turn in), بنى ثانية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 重建 (rebuilding, rebuilt, reconstruct, reconstructed, Reconstruction, reconstructive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | genoprette slaebeforbindelse (to reestablish towage connection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sleepverbinding herstellen (to reestablish towage connection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | دوباره برقراریاتاسیس کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | palauttaa ennalleen (regenerate, restore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rétablissons, rétablissez, rétablissent, rétablis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schleppverbindung wiederherstellen (to reestablish towage connection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιδρύω πάλι, αποκαθιστώ πάλι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לקבוע מח"ש, ל"שיב על כ ו (restore), ל"קים מח"ש. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mendirikan kembali. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eestablishray redresa (re establish, recover, right, straighten). (various references) obnoviti (re establish, refurbish, renew, renovate). (various references) återupprätta (re establish, re-establish, restore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reestablish": reestablished, reestablishes, reestablishing, reestablishment, reestablishments. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "reestablish": preestablish. (additional references) | |
Words containing "reestablish": preestablished, preestablishes, preestablishing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reestablish" (pronounced rēusta"blish) |
| 8 | -u s t a" b l i sh | establish. |
| 4 | -b l i sh | publish. |
| 3 | -l i sh | accomplish, demolish, devilish, embellish, ghoulish, girlish, hellish, polish, purplish, relish, smallish, stylish, ticklish. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: establisher. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-h-i-l-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: breathless, herbalists. | |
-2 letters: arbelests, beastlier, bleariest, brashiest, establish, heartless, herbalist, heritable, liberates. | |
-3 letters: arbelest, astilbes, ateliers, bastiles, bathless, beasties, beatless, blasters, blastier, blasties, blathers, bleaters, blethers, blisters, blithers, brashest, breathes, bristles, earliest, esthesia, hairless, halberts, halteres, harslets, hearties, heatless, heirless, heisters, heliasts, herbiest, herbless, hireable, leariest, leathers, leisters, liberate, librates, realises, realists, realties, relishes, reslates, retables, saltiers, saltires, seisable, seriates, shaliest, shelters, shelties, sherbets, slathers, slithers, stabiles, stablers, stablish, stealers, tearless, tireless. | |
-4 letters: abseils, aeriest, aethers, airless, albites, artless, ashiest, ashlers, astilbe, atelier, bailees, bailers, baiters, barites, barless, bashers, basters, bastile, bathers, bearish, beastie, beaters, behests, beliers, belters, berates, berthas, bestial, bestirs, bethels, betises, bisters, bistres, blaster, blastie, blather, bleater, blesser, blether, blister, blither, braises, braless, brashes, brasils, brassie, breasts, breathe, breaths, bristle, earless, easiest, easters, elaters, hailers, halbert, halites, haltere, halters, harslet, haslets, hastier, hatless, healers, hearses, heaters, heiress, heister, heliast, herbals, hessite, hirable, hirsels, hirsles, hitless, ireless, labrets, lashers, lasters, lathers, lathier, leasers, leashes, leather, leister, librate, listees, listers, rashest, realest, realise, realist, rebaits, rebates, reheats, relates, relists, resails, resales, reseals, reseats, resiles, resites, reslate, retable, retails, retiles, ribless, riblets, sailers, salters, saltier, salties, saltire, saltish, satires, sealers, searest, seaters, serails, serials, seriate, shalier, sheilas, sheltas, shelter, sheltie, sherbet, slasher, slaters, slather, slatier, slither, stabile, stabler, stables, stealer, sterile, streels, tahsils, tailers, teasels, teasers, telesis, terbias, tessera, thalers, tieless, trashes, trebles, tressel, triable. | |
-5 letters: abeles, ablest, abseil, aeries, aether, airest, airths, aisles, albeit, albite, alerts, alters, aretes, ariels, arises, artels, ashier, ashler, assert, asters, bailee, bailer, baiter, balers, barest, barite, basest, basher, bashes, basils, basset, baster, bastes, bather, bathes, beasts, beater, behest, belier, belies, belter, berate, berets, bertha, berths, besets, bestir, betels, bethel, betise, biases, birles, birses, births, bister, bistre, biters, blares, blasts, blears, bleats, blites, blithe, brails, braise, brasil, breast, breath, earths, easels, easier, easies, easter, eaters, either, elater, elates, elites, erases, esters, estral, ethers, habile, habits, haeres, hailer, halers, halest, halite, halter, haslet, hassel, hassle, hastes, haters, healer, hearse, hearts, heater, heists, herbal, hereat, hirsel, hirsle, hisser, islets, istles, labret, larees, lasers, lasher, lashes, lassie, laster, lather, lathes, lathis, latish, leaser, leases, leasts, lesser, lethes, libers, librae, libras, listee, lister, liters, lither, litres, rabies, raises, rashes, rassle, ratels, reales, rebait, rebate, rebels, reests, rehabs, reheat, relate, relets, relies, relish, relist, resail, resale, reseal, reseat, resets, reshes, resile, resist, resite, retail, retial, reties, retile, riblet, sabers, sabirs, sables, sabres, sahibs, sailer, saithe, salter, saltie, sarees, satire, sealer, seater, seiser, selahs, serail, serais. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-h-i-l-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: establishers, preestablish. | |
+2 letters: blatherskites, reestablished, reestablishes. | |
+3 letters: charitableness, preestablished, preestablishes, reestablishing, shareabilities. | |
+4 letters: blameworthiness, inheritableness, perishabilities, preestablishing, reestablishment. | |
+5 letters: blepharoplasties, charitablenesses, hypermetabolisms, reestablishments, stretchabilities, uncharitableness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . . ... - .- -... .-.. .. ... .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01100010 01101100 01101001 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e e s t a b l i s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0065 0073 0074 0061 0062 006C 0069 0073 0068 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271718586676878758574 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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