re-enter

present singular third person re-enters · participle present re-entering · participle past re-entered · past re-entered

1. alternativeAlternative form of reenter.

   Still, a strong reluctance to re-enter a service from which he had been dismissed with contempt, almost counterbalanced these considerations.

   1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 333–334

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   They all attended in the hall to see him mount his horse, and immediately on re-entering the breakfast room, Catherine walked to a window in the hope of catching another glimpse of his figure.

   1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, pages 124–125

   [...] however, the rebuilding of the latter with Davey Paxman Ventura engines has already begun and the first modified locomotive recently re-entered service between Glasgow and Dundee.

   1963 September, “Fire risk on diesels”, in Modern Railways, page 148

   Taiwanese soldiers on Tuesday fired flares at three unidentified drones that flew near Kinmen County, an offshore grouping of islands, before firing warning shots at one drone which re-entered the area above one of the islands, according to the Kinmen Defense Command.

   2022 August 30, Gladys Tsai, Jorge Engels, Jennifer Deaton,, “Taiwan fires warning shots at unidentified drone near islands”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2022

   “A long career gap can sometimes make it difficult to re-enter the workforce, especially in areas with rapidly changing technological advancements,” said Stephen Dwyer, president of the ASA. Microretirees may also lose out on retirement contributions and income they would have received had they chosen to stay in the workforce, he added.

   2024 December 16, Tony Case, “Need a break? Microretirement may be the answer”, in WorkLife

   From there, teams would work for two days refitting the carriages and the cabs, before moving to pre-testing and quality control. The units were then ready to re-enter service.

   2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, “A new dawn for the Electrostars”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 27