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.
Example Sentences
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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
Rather than centering himself as a victim, he framed the incident as a test of national character, urging Americans to reject political cruelty and recommit to shared democratic values.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 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
Mr. Collins moved to recommit to a Select Committee for amendment.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
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
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
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
Sources in Manchester suspect it was an upcoming headline on the use of powers over HS2 land along this route that forced the government's hand in recommitting to a plan of some sort.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 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 Ryerson, Egerton
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