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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reinstate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
death
▪ Since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty nearly 30 years ago, Maryland has executed three men.
▪ If Thompson is executed, he would be the fifth man put to death since California reinstated the death penalty in 1977.
penalty
▪ Since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty nearly 30 years ago, Maryland has executed three men.
▪ If Thompson is executed, he would be the fifth man put to death since California reinstated the death penalty in 1977.
■ VERB
force
▪ It was eventually forced to reinstate them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Hannigan was reinstated after students protested his dismissal.
▪ The state reinstated capital punishment in 1976.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He could quickly prove that he is not a Mobutu ally if he is successfully reinstated as prime minister.
▪ If reinstated, they are placed on a probationary period determined by the state board, Winn said.
▪ If we are going to encourage a new precautionary attitude, schools need to reinstate hygiene training.
▪ It must have been exciting when the theatres were reinstated.
▪ Proponents are now trying to reinstate the fees.
▪ Several players hardly seem happy the Raiders reinstated Smith, given the way he abruptly left the team September 27.
▪ The people of the district rose up in arms and reinstated the abbot, but their triumph was short-lived.
▪ The union is fighting to reinstate 23 sacked journalists.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reinstate

Reinstate \Re`in*state"\ (-st?t"), v. t. To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of the kingdom.

For the just we have said already thet some of them were reinstated in their pristine happiness and felicity.
--Glanvill.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reinstate

1590s, from re- + instate. Related: Reinstated; reinstating.

Wiktionary
reinstate

vb. 1 To restore somebody to a former position or rank. 2 To bring back into use or existence.

WordNet
reinstate
  1. v. restore to the previous state or rank

  2. bring back into original existence, use, function, or position; "restore law and order"; "reestablish peace in the region"; "restore the emperor to the throne" [syn: restore, reestablish]

Usage examples of "reinstate".

Each time you realize you have once again drifted away from being present, open, and awake in the present moment, simply reinstate the sustained attentiveness of practice by silently saying your word or phrase within yourself.

Each time we realize we have slipped away from present-moment attentiveness by drifting off into feelings and bodily sensations, we are to simply reinstate being present, open, and awake to the feelings and bodily sensations arising, enduring, and passing away within us.

The mere acceptance of a technical dogma, the mere performance of a ritual action, cannot adjust a discordant character with the conditions of blessedness so as to reinstate an exile of heaven.

Ridley was sent to the Tower and Bonner brought out from the Marshalsea and reinstated in the bishophric of London.

From the expression on his face, he was clearly envisioning the political flap were he to reinstate Justin to the Academy while still under a cloud from the Monse shooting.

She got used to the idea that her mother, for some reason, was in no hurry to reinstate her: that idea was forcibly expressed by her father whenever Miss Overmore, differing and decided, took him up on the question, which he was always putting forward, of the urgency of sending her to school.

Oddly enough, in later years, on 30th August 1792, having just succeeded in getting himself reinstated as captain after his absence, overstaying leave, he applied to pass into the Artillerie de la Marine.

Her nurse objected, was given notice by Lord Pastern and reinstated by his wife.

I been reinstated, we should have had the pleasure, as I have shown, of going through the siege of Pretoria, and on the Retrocession I should have been dismissed from my office without compensation, as I believe happened to the gentleman who succeeded me.

No doubt Edie was pushing to be reinstated and Abram was willing to bend with whatever expedient wind was blowing.

ARRIVING AT PHILADELPHIA in late November, Adams was pleased to find the President reinstated and most of Congress back to business.

The appointment has largely been greeted with enthusiasm by the Wizarding community, though rumors of a rift between the new Minister and Albus Dumbledore, newly reinstated Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, surfaced within hours of Scrimgeour taking office.

Jesuits should be reinstated in their college in Asuncion, and that the missions should be taken from the jurisdiction of the Governors of Paraguay and placed under the control of the Governor of the River Plate, as had been previously done in the case of the other Jesuit missions beyond the Uruguay.

But Spain was far away, and on one pretext or another so much delay occurred that it was not till March 18, 1728, that the Jesuits were reinstated in the college in Asuncion, which they were now fated to hold but for a little space.

Gerhardt seemed almost offensively bubbling with confidence, gloating as he informed Harker that it was only a matter of days before the court tossed Raymond and Harker out of control of Beller Labs and reinstated Klaus and Mitchison.