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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“We will greet those heroes at Dover and their sacrifice will only recommit us to the resolve of this mission.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
To recommit to ideals that have made a strong liberal arts education foundational to American democracy: critical thinking, dialogue, pluralism, the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 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
States and cities that want to restore mobility, recommit to growth, and open themselves to new arrivals seeking opportunity can do so on their own, right now.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2025
Next after that will be the various motions to recommit with instructions.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes
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
A recruiting class that suffered 13 defections in the wake of Foster’s firing has added nine players, including five who flipped their allegiances from other schools and four who recommitted to the Bruins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025
Corrections & Amplifications To date, 69 countries have recommitted to reducing their emissions in what are known as nationally determined contributions, or NDCs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
We walked down the aisle to the front of the church together and recommitted ourselves to God and to the church, just as I had done years before as a young girl.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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
In her fondest hopes, the commemoration of Global Beatles Day presents an annual opportunity for recommitting ourselves to the band’s ideals, which McCartney sagely explained in the “Anthology” documentary series.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 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
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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