recommit

American  

[ree-kuh-mit] / ˌri kəˈmɪt /

verb (used with object)

recommitted, recommitting

1. to commit again.

2. to refer again to a committee.

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recommit British  

/ ˌriːkəˈmɪt /

verb

1. to send (a bill) back to a committee for further consideration

2. to commit again

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Other Word Forms

• recommitment
  noun
• recommittal
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of recommit

First recorded in 1615–25; re- + commit

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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.

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

recommit recommitted recommitting

It’s been hard to tell what kind of comeback Williams is pursuing—if this is a quick resurfacing to play with Venus, or if she intends to fully recommit to the tour.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

So if we're going to recommit to delivering meaningful outcomes to our communities in need, we need to be very clear on streamlining the process in the most effective and efficient way.

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2025

When the report has been received, whether it has been read or not, the committee is thereby dissolved, and can act no more without it is revived by a vote to recommit.

From Robert's Rules of Order Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies by Henry M. Robert

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

Instead, Rose recommitted to the PGA Tour—and his own performance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

“I thought I had to grieve you,” he’d say after long stretches of silence from De la Huerta — instances when she’d be committed and recommitted to mental hospitals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 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

For the recommitting the address, and in favour of a conciliatory policy towards the colonies, spoke, besides Lord John Cavendish, the mover, Mr. Lumley, the Lord Mayor of London, Rt.

From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

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