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Redraft

Redraft \Re*draft"\ (r[=e]*dr[.a]ft"), v. t. To draft or draw anew.

Redraft

Redraft \Re*draft"\, n.

  1. A second draft or copy.

  2. (Com.) A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protected bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges.

Wiktionary
redraft

n. A second or subsequent draft vb. To draft again

WordNet
redraft

n. a draft for the amount of a dishonored draft plus the costs and charges of drafting again

Usage examples of "redraft".

Now, we, the Shona, are the ultimate victors, so it is our right to redraft history.

She folded it and stuck it in the envelope before she had the urge to redraft it.

She needed a notepad, a pen and a few hours to draft and redraft her arguments.

Now, we, the Shana, are the ultimate victors, so it is our right to redraft history.

I write careful, pinched responses that require drafts and redrafts, the final copies folded carefully in thirds and sealed in spotless white envelopes.

He then had every pearly phrase redrafted by some idiot until its impact was killed.

So if this House will permit me, I will undertake to spend the next few days redrafting it, in conjunction with the two men most implacably opposed to its present formour junior consul Marcus Valerius Messala Niger and the tribune of the plebs Quintus Fufius Calenus.

With rapid strokes of the crayon he began redrafting his features, widening the oval of the eyes, rounding the forehead, broadening the narrow cheeks, making the lips fuller, the chin larger.

It would be weeks, perhaps months before he could see how completely his erstwhile friend had accomplished, in reverse, the redrafting job on his face for which he had longed.

After several months of drafting and redrafting, I was about to give up, when it occurred to me that my ignorance of physics was the key to the essay.

Here they were redrafted, encoded in a naval code, and transmitted on a special frequency not normally used by the Navy and without any direct address to the Pearl Harbor strike force.

The rule had recently been redrafted, at Ed's urging, to point out that quite a few of the agents his officers recruited were third-world journalists.

It was as if each genome had been redrafted over and over, each time junk and defects were combed out, each time the coherence of the whole was improved—but each time the possibility for major change was reduced.

He'd redrafted his request to meet with the Traders' Council on the following Sexdi to discuss matters of mutual interest and concern.

He remembered the day, two years before, when he had sat on his bed redrafting his features with a crayon while awaiting Granacci's summoning whistle.