reconduction

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/ˌriːkənˈdʌkʃən/

noun

Repeat undertaking or restoration.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounreconduction (plural reconductions)

plural reconductions

  1. Repeat undertaking or restoration.

    Most importantly, the suicide attacks of 11 September and the ensuing ‘war against terror’ greatly facilitated the neutralization of the protest movement and the ‘reconduction’ of public order.

    2020, Steffen Erdle, Ben Ali's 'New Tunisia' (1987-2009). A Case Study of Authoritarian Modernization in the Arab World, De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, page 126
  2. historicallawRepeat locatio conductio.
  3. archaicThe conveying something back, escort to its original place.
    1 more example

    Since Savarkar was prima facie a political criminal, France demanded that England should give him and should request his extradition in a formal way, but England refused to compl with this demand, and the parties, therefore, agreed to have the conflict decided by the Court of Arbitration at The Hague. The award, while admitting that an irregularity had been committed by the reconduction of Savarkar to the British vessel, decided, correctly, I believe, in favour of Great Britain, asserting that there was no rule of International Law imposing, in circumstances such as those which have been set out above, any obligation on the Power which has in its custody a prisoner, to restore him on account of a mistake committed by the foreign agent who delivered him up to that Power.

    1905, Lassa Oppenheim, International Law. A Treatise. Volume I, 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main: Outlook Verlag, published 2018, →ISBN, page 309

Origin

  1. Medieval Latinrecondūctiō
  2. Middle Frenchreconduction
  3. Englishreconduction

From reconduct + -ion. Borrowed from Middle French reconduction in the “repeat lease” sense, itself from Medieval Latin recondūctiō from recondūcere already used by classical Roman jurisprudence.

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APA

reconduction. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reconduction

MLA

“reconduction.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reconduction. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reconduction,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reconduction.

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