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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reopen
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
case
▪ Cleveland Police have said they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the murder and are not reopening the case.
▪ Sacks is seeking to reopen a case in which Fuhrman was the lead investigator.
▪ He is trying again to reopen the case.
debate
▪ The cautious effort to reopen the debate was sparked by a controversial report from the United Nations Population Division this year.
government
▪ The congress called on the government to reopen schools and Niamey University, closed following rioting on Feb. 27.
▪ The government crisis reopened the question of the timing of unification.
▪ It urges the government to reopen this question.
issue
▪ But this reopens the issue of national dependence on Uncle Sam.
▪ A bout of selling on the stock exchange, perhaps, or a cold snap that reopens the fuel price issue.
plan
▪ The new discovery, of weakness in welded joints, may delay plans to reopen the plant's two reactors.
▪ Anger over plans to reopen prison.
question
▪ It is not appropriate to reopen the question of Zionism and racism.
▪ The government crisis reopened the question of the timing of unification.
▪ It urges the government to reopen this question.
year
▪ The town hall is set to reopen next year and will include a tourist information centre, library and concert room.
▪ If all goes well the Borghese Gallery should reopen within a year.
▪ Further investment is needed at the colliery, which reopened last year when 160 miners invested £10,000 each to form the consortium.
▪ When Waddesdon reopens at Easter next year the guests will be the general public.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Garrett reopened the murder investigation in May.
▪ Police have decided to reopen the investigation in the light of important new evidence.
▪ The action is likely to reopen debates about affirmative action.
▪ The two sides are prepared to reopen peace talks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After De Smet finally abandoned his expensive mission, none was reopened until 1866.
▪ At the time I was there, investors were planning to fix it up and reopen it.
▪ But this reopens the issue of national dependence on Uncle Sam.
▪ He took a risk this week by breaking with House Republicans and seeking to reopen the government while budget talks proceed.
▪ It is to reopen March 16.
▪ J.P.. had been completely renovated and, in 1951, was reopened to the public.
▪ The motion was carried, and the school was reopened with a new teacher.
▪ To condemn him too publicly would reopen wounds within the party.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reopen

Reopen \Re*o"pen\ (r?-?"p'n), v. t. & i. To open again.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reopen

1733 (transitive), from re- "again" + open (v.). Intransitive sense from 1830. Related: Reopened; reopening.

Wiktionary
reopen

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To open (something) again. 2 (context intransitive English) To open again.

WordNet
reopen

v. open again or anew; "They reopened the theater"

Usage examples of "reopen".

But unless he sent Corvinus back to Abellinum almost immediately, Becco would follow his instruction, wait twelve hours, and reopen the sluices during the sixth watch of the night.

It was still a lot of work to get through in a night, before the first tongues of fresh water reached them from Abellinum, after Becco had reopened the sluices.

But the raid was cancelled later in the day, and it is not known whether this would have marked the reopening of the Battle of Berlin.

I was sorry for having spoken about the aroph, as three days had gone by without her mentioning it, and I could not very well reopen the question myself.

And so they decided to visit him and see his improvement for themselves, although they considered a complete cure almost impossible, and they agreed not to make any mention at all of knight errantry so as not to run the risk of reopening his wounds, which were still so fresh.

A ropy mass of neurons, interlaced with augmentations of my jugular vein and my two carotid arteries, extended from beneath my orphaned medulla and stretched across four feet of empty space before disappearing into my reopened fontanel, the whole arrangement shielded from microbial contamination by a flexible plastic tube.

In the morning she rose and found that the road and the funicular had been reopened.

Louise should have taken the risk of gating here long enough to shut down the Earth gate and cripple this station keeper so that he could not easily reopen it.

It was reopened, however, several hours later when it was learned that instead of leaving Gola altogether the ships were seen one after another by the various cities of the planet as they circumnavigated it.

I rise at once, I follow him to shut the door, but I slam it rather too hard, the double spring of the lock gives way, and the door cannot be reopened without the key.

I heard Hiren muse aloud about whether the Gelaming would be interested in reopening trade with Ahmouth, should they take over Galhea.

The door closed and reopened a moment later to let a man out, presumably the one Kindy had seen rising.

Practically, if you reopen a drain well laid with pipes and collars, you will find them reposing in a beautiful nidus, which, when they are carefully removed, looks exactly as if it had been moulded for them.

Which would then bring about a dropping of charges against Dancer, his release, a reopening of the Colodny case, and a revaluation of the Meeker homicide by the Sacramento authorities.

Governor Swale received word that the River Pack wishes to reopen negotiations.