recommit
Americanverb
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to send (a bill) back to a committee for further consideration
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to commit again
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of recommit
Explanation
To recommit is to make a promise again, like when you recommit yourself to serving your Girl Scout troop by selling loads of cookies. It can also mean to carry out a crime for a subsequent time (something a Girl Scout would never do). When you recommit to cleaning your guinea pig's cage daily, you swear that you'll get back on a regular cleaning schedule. When you and your friends paint graffiti on your neighbor's garage two days in a row, you recommit the crime of vandalism. The prefix re- tells you that this verb is describing repeated or recurring action.
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Oil shocks and heightened geopolitical tensions have reignited a familiar debate about whether policymakers should formally raise their inflation targets or simply take a mulligan and recommit.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
If we’re willing to reform ourselves—to listen, change and recommit to our core mission—we can again be a trusted engine of the American dream, scientific breakthroughs and the global economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
Hsueh said that, until volatility declines or the Fed actually cuts rates, these investors will be reluctant to recommit funds to gold ETFs.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 18, 2025
“And I urge leaders up and down the state to review the data and resources available and recommit to standing united against hate.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
He added that he and the other aldermen had never meant to recommit me; deliverance from that ergastulum. they considered part of my reward and that the least part of it.
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by Edward Lucas White
Private-credit specialist Blue Owl recommitted to beating Wall Street forecasts, touting the strength of its data-center investment products, despite a slump in new sales of its core funds marketed to individual investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
On Wednesday, Fed Chair Warsh recommitted to the central bank's two-percent target for inflation.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Moreover, in the first meeting under Warsh, Gavekal observed that the Federal Open Market Committee recommitted to price stability and its inflation target of 2% per year.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
Also in line with Labour’s manifesto, Starmer recommitted to building 1.5 million net additional dwellings in England over the course of the Parliament.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2025
For starters, I recommitted myself to being healthy.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
This column has long maintained that a major operation to wrest control of the Persian Gulf would be recommitting to a strategic past that accorded excessive primacy to the Gulf and its oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Friendship is particularly meaningful because it’s a relationship you’re constantly recommitting to — reupping.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
But most important for anyone recommitting capital will be whether Putin and his successors have learned the wrong lessons from their war in Ukraine.
From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025
“Not if they’re recommitting almost the exact violation,” Leffel said.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025
A proposal for recommitting this resolution was negatived by 240 votes to 133.—Journals of the House of Commons.
From Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Benjamin Franklin
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