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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reiterate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
reaffirm/restate/reiterate a commitment (=give a promise again)
▪ They reaffirmed their commitment to abandon nuclear power.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ But, in a speech to students at Oxford University she also reiterated her opposition to contraception.
▪ Forbes also reiterated his call for a balanced budget amendment, but said his version would include a tax cut.
▪ Gorbachev also reiterated his proposal for inspection access to foreign military bases.
▪ They also reiterate how fresh and vital some of this music still sounds.
■ NOUN
belief
▪ In the former essay Oakeshott reiterates his belief that the business of government is simply to rule.
▪ Graham came to San Francisco a week ago and reiterated his belief that homosexuality is a sin.
call
▪ They reiterated their call for a popular referendum on the country's future political system.
▪ Forbes also reiterated his call for a balanced budget amendment, but said his version would include a tax cut.
▪ In a recent meeting with council officials, he reiterated his call for its retention for the rugby team.
commitment
▪ In the lead-up to the elections the authorities reiterated their commitment to a free ballot, extending facilities to foreign observers.
government
▪ Responding, Airbus chief executive Noel Forgeard reiterated that the government loans were repayable.
▪ França reiterated that the government had taken Mavinga, but did not make clear whether they still held it.
opposition
▪ But, in a speech to students at Oxford University she also reiterated her opposition to contraception.
▪ Shortly afterwards T. reiterated her opposition to a blood transfusion both to the midwife and to a doctor.
point
▪ The first principle reiterates a point made earlier: although they favoured reform rather than punishment, this was not for humanitarian reasons.
▪ It is worth reiterating here the point that the media offer a means of influencing your target audiences.
▪ It is sufficient here to merely reiterate two points.
▪ He reiterated that point in June and again in July.
position
▪ He reiterated his position that he had not been aware of the clandestine funding.
▪ Beaverbrook reiterated this position to Berle when the two met on 21 July.
▪ On Saturday the company again attempted to drill and the Glenleighan Committee went to the site and reiterated their position.
support
▪ Last month the senator complicated their task by reiterating his support for some exceptions to a constitutional amendment banning abortion.
view
▪ Mr Pascall was determined to reassure the audience by reiterating his view that the framework was the answer.
▪ As for me, I should reiterate my view that the tests were legitimate but, in their timing, wrong.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Earlier in the day, Jones reiterated that he had no intention of firing Swenson.
▪ Rosamond reiterated her wish to leave Middlemarch.
▪ The President reiterated his support for the treaty.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After the 1943 riots, instructions were reiterated and sample requests were sent to all states.
▪ Clear ground rules will be formulated, put on display and will be reiterated.
▪ Clinton reiterated his interest Thursday during an afternoon meeting with the mayors at the White House.
▪ The sixth paragraph reiterates the price and availability facts.
▪ They subscribe to it not for reasons of caprice, but because eminent judicial authority has reiterated the notion over the years.
▪ Two subsequent court decisions reiterated the Court of Appeals' ruling.
▪ We are moved by their attentions, including many reiterated invitations for the various events of Oshagatsu.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reiterate

Reiterate \Re*it"er*ate\ (-?t), a. Reiterated; repeated. [R.]

Reiterate

Reiterate \Re*it"er*ate\ (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reiterated (-[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Reiterating.] [Pref. re- + iterate: cf. F. r['e]it['e]rer, LL. reiterare to question again.] To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat.

That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation.
--Milton.

You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate were sin.
--Shak.

Syn: To repeat; recapitulate; rehearse.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reiterate

early 15c., "repeat again and again," from Late Latin reiteratus, past participle of reiterare "to repeat," from re- "again" (see re-) + iterare "to repeat," from iterum "again" (see iteration). Related: Reiterated; reiterating.

Wiktionary
reiterate
  1. reiterated; repeated. v

  2. (context transitive English) To say or do (something) for a second time, such as for emphasis.

WordNet
reiterate

v. to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell]

Wikipedia
Reiterate

Reiterate is the eighth full-length album from the Christian hip hop group GRITS. It was released on September 16, 2008, and is the GRITS first release on their newly formed Revolution Art label.

Usage examples of "reiterate".

When he withdrew from the scene of his painful recollections, they both accompanied him downstairs, reiterating their hope that he would come again whenever he pleased, and assuring him that their poor dwelling would ever be open to him.

As for myself, who am true Yorkshire also, I take the most honest pride in hearing them describe your elegant attitude, leaning back in your britzska, with your feet on the opposite cushions, your hat arranged aside with that air of undefinable grace characteristic of the Grand Seigneur, and, which is the last remnant of the feudal system, your reiterated orders to drive over an old woman.

But as he matured as a thinker and an artist he realized it would be more valuable to test his ideas than merely to reiterate them, and to generate vivid negative images rather than advance positive propositions.

Within days he reiterated that self-government for Ireland would not be possible without first partitioning the island.

The silly pretext of difficulties by which my erasure, notwithstanding the reiterated solicitations of the victorious General, was so long delayed made me apprehensive of a renewal, under a weak and jealous pentarchy, of the horrible scenes of 1796.

I merely sent back, through Tallent, a brief note reiterating the time and place I had already specified.

That gentleman seized every opportunity, in and out of the house, to vituperate Lord Palmerston, and persisted in reiterating as facts, fallacies which had been many times exposed.

Tee-a-nicknick remarked, reiterating his complaints about the plan Creeps had former earlier that day.

Next to it, an eerily calm Islamic downlink ceaselessly reiterates the name of God in a fractal-based calligraphy.

At any rate, it addressed another appeal to London reiterating the willingness of its former subjects to become British citizens, and adding a warning that the advisers of the Mikado could not accept responsibility for the tranquillity of the nation, if harmless settlers of their own race should be treated with violence.

Since 1793 the Court has frequently reiterated the early view that the federal courts organized under article III cannot render advisory opinions or that the rendition of advisory opinions is not a part of the judicial power of the United States.

I must reiterate that the polyvalence -- the almost unbounded permissiveness -- of interpretation is essentially of the same nature as that of Rorschach tests.

It reiterates the maxims of Pythagoras, Confucius, and Zoroaster, and reverentially enforces the sublime lessons of Him who died upon the Cross.

The widow, if she heard, ignored her, and reiterated the charms of her daughters for another hour or so, while re-emphasizing at strategic intervals that Colin must make all haste to gather a delegation to rescue Prince Leofwin from Trickle and bring the Everclear zombies under the dominion of certain responsible citizens of Little Darlingham.

After coffee I thanked the abbot with the greatest respect, and accompanied him to his carriage, where the reverend father reiterated his offers of serving me, and thus, well pleased with one another, we parted.