Meanings
present singular third person reintroduces · participle present reintroducing · participle past reintroduced · past reintroduced · alternative re-introduce
- transitiveTo introduce again.
Cheap mid-week return tickets were reintroduced by British Railways on May 7, to encourage holiday travel during the week rather than at weekends.
1957 June 28, “Notes and News: Cheap Mid-Week Tickets Reintroduced”, in Railway Magazine, page 4335 more examples
Pretend it never happened. The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they’ve reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?
1992, Douglas Adams, chapter 13, in Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 118[…] 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.
1998, Jules L. Coleman, Markets, Morals, and the Law, page 321It 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.
2001 June 1, R.M. Johnson, “On Exhibit: The Mountain Bike's Primitive Ancestors”, in Chicago ReaderThe 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.
2006, Dina Goldin, Scott A. Smolka, Peter Wegner, Interactive Computation: The New Paradigm, page 184Slums 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.
2011 November 29, Adam Werbach, “How a classic model of social commerce can teach the world how to save”, in The Guardian
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Italic*wre-
- Latinre-
- Old Frenchre-
- Middle Englishre-
- Englishre-
- Englishintroduce
- Englishreintroduce
Translations
Catalan reintroduir
- reintroduirintroduce again
French réintroduire
- réintroduireintroduce again
Italian reintrodurre
- reintrodurreintroduce again
Norwegian Bokmål gjeninnføre
- gjeninnføreintroduce again
Polish reintrodukować
- reintrodukowaćintroduce again
Portuguese reintroduzir
- reintroduzirintroduce again
Spanish reintroducir
- reintroducirintroduce again
Swedish återinföra
- återinföraintroduce again
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with reintroduce
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Cite this entry
reintroduce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reintroduce
“reintroduce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reintroduce. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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