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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
re-release
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Star Wars was re-released in 1997.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Starting in 1993, the label plans to re-release all the Smiths albums on compact disc in chronological sequence.
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re-release

n. (alternative spelling of rerelease English) vb. (alternative spelling of rerelease English)

Usage examples of "re-release".

Why is it then that the re-release of the original Star Wars films for their 20th anniversary in the late 1990s could still rake in over 400 million dollars in new revenue, even as more and more voices started coming out in the media concerning the derivative nature of Lucas’ scripts and the historical hindsight that now allows us to see that Lucas almost single-handedly destroyed the burgeoning 1970s independent cinema movement?