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reinstall

/ ˌriːɪnˈstɔːl /

verb

  1. to put in place and connect (machinery, equipment, etc) again

  2. to install (computer software) again, usually to solve a technical problem

  3. to put (someone) back in a position, rank, etc

    Trinidad reinstalled him against Honduras

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It later denied a second permit to reinstall the statue.

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Instead, they had to pay upward of tens of thousands of dollars to fix damaged septic systems, reinstall their own power poles and repave the asphalt melted from private roads.

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Two Wright-designed sofa tables, which the architect had said he considered “part of the house design itself,” were reinstalled.

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A Paddington statue that was ripped from a bench by two RAF engineers is to be reinstalled.

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When Donald Trump redecorated the Oval Office to his liking in January, he reinstalled a portrait of President Andrew Jackson that had hung on the wall across from the Resolute Desk in his first term.

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