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reinstate

[ ree-in-steyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, re·in·stat·ed, re·in·stat·ing.

to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state:
to reinstate the ousted chairman.

reinstate

/ ˌriːɪnˈsteɪt /

First recorded in 1620–30; re- + instate

Egypt elected its president from the Muslim Brotherhood, only to see a counter-revolution reinstate a member of the military.

They want President Obama and his European counterparts to compel the military to reinstate President Morsi.

Under Johnson, the chain alienated customers by doing away with discounts and sales, only to reinstate them after sales plummeted.

An appeal is pending to reinstate Aguiar's claims against Kaplan.

They said Romney would reclaim it from Britain and reinstate it in the White House, calling it “symbolically important.”

He subsequently endeavored, again and again, to reinstate himself in her favor, but in vain.

Austria and Prussia, united with the emigrants at Coblentz, prepared to march to Paris to reinstate the king upon his throne.

Live to spend it as your brother desired, to make over the old house and reinstate the old name.

He looked in her face like a whipped dog trying to reinstate himself in favour, as far as Tanqueray could look like a whipped dog.

But I thought I would leave the word to him, without further attempt to reinstate him in his self-esteem.

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