reprint
Americanverb (used with object)
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reprints,
present (3rd person singular)
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reprinted,
past participle, past
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reprinting
present participle
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
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
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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A reprint wouldn’t have any of that history.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026
It appears ubiquitously in 19th-century songbooks and parlor-piano reprint collections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
“You could just reprint them, because nothing changes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
It was a considerable expense for counties to reprint ballots.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2024
I’ve also chosen some e-mail to partially reprint here.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
They had launched themselves in business two years earlier by acquiring the Modern Library, a line of affordable reprints, from a struggling firm where Cerf had worked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Despite maintaining no wrongdoing, Ms Bellamy said she offered to take down the recipes from future reprints "to prevent further aggravation", and that this was communicated "swiftly" to Ms Maehashi.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2025
Afterward, the organization delivers an 8-by-10-inch framed portrait to each veteran at no cost, as well as digital copies for family reprints.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
Knopf said it would remove the Audubon name and logo from future guides and reprints.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
"Seriously? A 1976 or one of the reprints?"
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
"After the original printing on 4 July, the news of the Declaration is travelling fast around North America and its being reprinted as it reaches each successive colony," he told BBC News.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
In response, she requested the book not be reprinted, and “Survivor” has become a rare and pricey collector’s item ever since.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
The hymn, reprinted in hymnbooks since the late 18th century, is still sung by many Presbyterian and Baptist congregations in the U.S. and the U.K.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
This article originally ran in Street Sense Media and is reprinted here with permission.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2025
In the coming months, the media reprinted and rehashed each other’s old stories, and ran speculative tales about the frozen northlands.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
In addition to reprinting the original articles, the book provides updates on how well the originally selected anomalies have stood the test of time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
But the changes have led to a last-minute scramble among companies like his - right from reprinting labels to reflect new prices and balancing production with uncertain demand.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2025
Brockman followed with a post on X reprinting a message he sent to OpenAI employees in which he wrote, “based on today’s news, i quit.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
“I would like to avoid reprinting the documents,” Shafer said, asking the electors to replace another Republican with Still.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
The reprinting of medical books, therefore, was to be considered as a token of the growing necessity for medical students ever increasing in our country, and the beginning of the revival of scientific education.
From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Katsuro Hara
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