repatrol

present singular third person repatrols · participle present repatrolling · participle past repatrolled · past repatrolled

1. To patrol again.

   There is, however, some solid ground in this area that need not presently be repatrolled.

   1976, Criminal Law Series - Volume 8, Issues 37-41

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   Three visits were made and, in view of Isabi's low population (P.D.S. 1979 - 68 Residents) it was decided not to repatrol yet again.

   1982, G. J. Slaughter, Field Co-ordinator's Report, page 151

   There were no fixed targets, no objectives, no highways to take—it was patrol and repatrol, search and destroy.

   2013, Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, →ISBN

plural repatrols

1. A patrol of an area that was already previously patrolled.

   ...medical scheme, travel on appointment and repatrol.

   1969, The Sierra Leone Gazette - Volume 100, page 196

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   The United States Coast Guard also has furnished the committee with records of depth soundings taken in the North Atlantic in the course of its repatrol work which have their application to the study of the seismic area of the Grand Banks.

   1929, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), Report of the National Academy of Sciences, page 88

   ... thought it smarter to move them down there and make productive use of that 8-days' transit time that they were spending on a repatrol.

   1984, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, Drug Law Enforcement Strategy (DEA, Coast Guard, Customs)