recapture
- the recovery or retaking by capture.
- the taking by the government of a fixed part of all earnings in excess of a certain percentage of property value, as in the case of a railroad.
- International Law. the lawful reacquisition of a former possession.
- the state or fact of being recaptured.
Origin of recapture
Examples from the Web for recapture
Contemporary Examples of recapture
My strategy was to bring in the people we never had, not try to recapture the people we lost to Reagan.
Before modernism, designers were almost trying to recapture the past.
The protest at Recapture Canyon was non-violent, though there were guns present.
On each of these privileged descents into Recapture, we walked and climbed down.
Was it because your dad really liked those earlier sessions and wanted to recapture some of the magic?
The Inside Story of Johnny Cash’s Legendary Lost LP, ‘Out Among the Stars’Andrew Romano
March 18, 2014
Historical Examples of recapture
Preventing his recapture, the mob bore him off to the Church of the Cerviti.
The Life of Cesare BorgiaRaphael Sabatini
He burned now to be avenged, and at all costs he would ride after and recapture her.
The Trampling of the LiliesRafael Sabatini
I still felt that there was a chance for us to recapture the ship.
Margaret sprang up and tried to recapture the cup which had just left her hand.
Three MargaretsLaura E. Richards
Birdie and Godley are at work upon a scheme for its recapture.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2Ian Hamilton
recapture
- to capture or take again
- to recover, renew, or repeat (a lost or former ability, sensation, etc)she soon recaptured her high spirits
- US (of the government) to take lawfully (a proportion of the profits of a public-service undertaking)
- the act of recapturing or fact of being recaptured
- US the seizure by the government of a proportion of the profits of a public-service undertaking