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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Peter Thiel wrote an introduction to the 2020 reprint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
“You could just reprint them, because nothing changes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
This was emphasized by Amelia Simmons in her 1796 cookbook, “American Cookery” — the first of its kind in the U.S. — a reprint of which King owned and referenced to craft her own product.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2024
It was a considerable expense for counties to reprint ballots.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2024
A reprint, not nearly as large as the one he saw in Frederick’s living room, but dazzling nonetheless: four hundred and thirty-five engravings.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
The company doesn’t charge for inclusion in the rankings but does sell plaques and reprints to those who make the lists; Forbes and Shook Research share that revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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
A year ago, Costco said the rising use of digital photos on social media had led to declining demand for photo reprints.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
When Dahl died of a rare blood cancer in 1990 at age 74, reprints of his books described him as the world’s No. 1 storyteller.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2022
Mendel himself requested forty reprints, which he mailed, heavily annotated, to many scientists.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
"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
Though we’d never been introduced, I knew of him through his newspaper columns, which I read in the Conservative Chronicle, a weekly publication that reprinted the work of right-leaning newspaper columnists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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
Politico cited and reprinted the quote that Bannon gave to the Washington Post.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
“It has a dreadful stain on it, if you haven’t noticed. All of Fort’s books have just been beautifully reprinted in one volume, so I now have that.”
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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
“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 Kentucky Supreme Court has rejected the neutral reportage doctrine—which would grant defamation immunity to publishers for reprinting ‘newsworthy statements.’”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
But the Fabian Society did well to suggest, in reprinting one of his tracts, the broader scope of his thinking.
From John Woolman's Journal by John Woolman
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