readmit

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/ˌɹiːədˈmɪt/

verb

To admit, or allow to enter, again.

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Meanings

verbreadmit (third-person singular simple present readmits, present participle readmitting, simple past and past participle readmitted)

present singular third person readmits · participle present readmitting · participle past readmitted · past readmitted · alternative re-admit · alternative obsolete reädmit

  1. To admit, or allow to enter, again.

    Secondly, this definition readmits the vague dualism that it purports to exclude. If everything 'outside' the subject is material, then either the subject itself is not material or we must extend the definition of matter to comprise subjective phenomena.

    1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 466

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishadmit
  7. Englishreadmit

From re- + admit.

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Translations

Catalan readmetre
  • readmetreto admit again
French réadmettre
  • réadmettreto admit again
Italian riammettere
  • riammettereto admit again
Portuguese readmitir
  • readmitirto admit again
Spanish readmitir
  • readmitirto admit again

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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