reprint
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
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a reproduction in print of any matter already published; offprint
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a reissue of a printed work using the same type, plates, etc, as the original
verb
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Present
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reprintsimple
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reprintssimple
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have reprintedperfect
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has reprintedperfect
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am reprintingprogressive
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are reprintingprogressive
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is reprintingprogressive
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have been reprintingperfect progressive
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has been reprintingperfect progressive
Past
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reprintedsimple
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had reprintedperfect
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was reprintingprogressive
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were reprintingprogressive
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had been reprintingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of reprint
Explanation
To reprint something is to publish it again, or issue it in a new form. When a book is a best seller, its publisher will reprint thousands, or even millions, of copies. Sometimes books go out of print for a long time before a publisher reprints them, and in other cases they are continuously popular enough that a publishing company will reprint them constantly. You can call a newer printed edition of a book or magazine article a reprint, too. Reprint adds the "again" prefix re-, to print, from the Old French preinte, "impression."
Example Sentences
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Thanks to Johnson Reprint, the closest things to Leonardo's originals are to be had and held.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reprint of an early novelet by an author who is at last beginning to be appreciated.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reprint this same article a million strong and see that every university in the land has copies, to enable every student to study this contribution to sound thinking for the future.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reprint of an early novel come back to plague its Brain-Truster author.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Reprint of the Original Edition, newly revised, with Twelve full-page Plates.
From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Allen, Grant
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