reassemble
Britishverb
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to come or bring together again
parliament is due to reassemble
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to fit or join (something) together again
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Explanation
When you rebuild something, you reassemble it. You might find that taking apart your bicycle is easy, but things will get much more complicated when you try to reassemble it. After you remove the legs from your kitchen table so you can move it through a narrow door into another room, you'll have to reassemble it. You can also use this verb to mean "gather together again," like when your art class visits a museum, where the students spread out to see different exhibits and then reassemble in the lobby later in the day.
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"The teams and suppliers building satellites now are the ones able to develop the next generation of a related technology, and once they disperse, they are very hard to reassemble."
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Putting the forward fuselage of a retired Boeing 747 into the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington required workers to cut the plane into numerous pieces and then reassemble it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
If the justices rule the tariff were implemented illegally, White House officials have said they’ll use other authorities to reassemble the tariffs, but in the interim, the uncertainty could keep companies frozen.
From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025
Thousands of victims are still in limbo, trying to rebuild their homes and reassemble their lives while managing the stress of displacement, the cost of starting over and the loss of irreplaceable keepsakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
She glared at the torn-up note, wishing that it would reassemble itself so that she might tear it up again.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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