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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
respray
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After the accident I took the car to a garage to have it resprayed.
▪ The thieves had resprayed the truck and changed the license plates.
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respray

n. An act of respraying. vb. (context transitive intransitive English) To spray again.

Usage examples of "respray".

South Africa, bring them over here, respray them, file off the original engine number, and then sell them cheaply or send them up to Zambia.

Indeed he must have dropped it off inside the yard before he delivered the respray job across in Greenfields, and installed it ready for delivery on his return.

What I think happened is the snatchers most probably had three motors and resprayed them, say once a week, hoping to lessen the chances of being noticed.

Just after buying it, he had had it resprayed black with a long wasp-yellow streak down each side.

Overhead, the former Red Devils, now resprayed yellow, screamed into view and executed daring twists and rolls over the palace, delighting the crowds below.

A couple of months later the same ships would show up again, renamed, resprayed - and full of coke.

He collects car keys left by bona fide travelers at the issue desk, nicks the cars and drives them to Wolverhampton to be resprayed for sale by his cousin.

The scrunched left-side front had been hammered out, I saw, but respraying lay in the future.

There was also equipment for respraying, a selection of wing-mirrors, various other items for giving a car a different trim.

What I think happened is the snatchers most probably had three motors and resprayed them, say once a week, hoping to lessen the chances of being noticed.

Here a complete overhaul job is done, the linings of the motors rebored, with new rings, tested and ready to go finally into the paint room, where they are resprayed with green paint.