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Reoccupy

Reoccupy \Re*oc"cu*py\ (r?-?k"k?-p?), v. t. To occupy again.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reoccupy

also re-occupy, 1731, from re- "back, again" + occupy (v.). Related: Reoccupied; reoccupying.

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reoccupy

vb. to occupy again

Usage examples of "reoccupy".

Austrians reoccupy Czernowitz and announce capture of fortifications around Sambor.

If that pledge were withdrawn, Saddam would undoubtedly move to reoccupy northern Iraq as soon as he was ready.

Again the cavalry retreated, allowing the British gunners to reoccupy their undamaged batteries.

Narvik was abandoned, the Allied troops were hastily re-embarked, and General Dietl, who had held out in a wild mountainous tract near the Swedish border, reoccupied the port on June 8 and four days later accepted the surrender of the persevering and gallant Colonel Ruge and his bewildered, resentful Norwegian troops, who felt they had been left in the lurch by the British.

Once again Saddam panicked, fearing that Iran would be able to push into Iraq and oust his regime as easily as it had reoccupied its own territory.

When the Empire finally took control of this city, these areas would be reoccupied by the new, Imperially approved, leaders.

The Buffs assumed the duty of rear-guard, and were delighted to have a brisk little skirmish--fortunately unattended with loss of life--with the tribesmen, who soon reoccupied the burning village.

On the left the Guides Infantry were unable to leave the ridge they had captured, lest it should be reoccupied by the enemy, who were showing in great strength.

On abandoning the Caffaro line, which they had reoccupied after the Lodrone encounter--in consequence of which the Garibaldians had to fall back because of the concentration following the battle of Custozza--the Austrians have retired to the Lardara fortress, between the Stabolfes and Tenara mountains, covering the route to Tione and Trento, in the Italian Tyrol.

The moment he saw fresh droppings in one of the newly reoccupied stalls, an anger grew in him visibly.

They reoccupied some of the old cities like Chichen Itza and Coba, and they built some new ones like Mayapan.

General McCreavy, are your forces capable of reoccupying the Panama Canal Zone to stop that shipment?

On abandoning the Caffaro line, which they had reoccupied after the Lodrone encounter--in consequence of which the Garibaldians had to fall back because of the concentration following the battle of Custozza--the Austrians have retired to the Lardara fortress, between the Stabolfes and Tenara mountains, covering the route to Tione and Trento, in the Italian Tyrol.

It was four hours before a fresh British advance reoccupied the ridge, and by that time the Boers had disappeared.

When the Empire finally took control of this city, these areas would be reoccupied by the new, Imperially approved, leaders.