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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
restate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
reaffirm/restate/reiterate a commitment (=give a promise again)
▪ They reaffirmed their commitment to abandon nuclear power.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
position
▪ We welcome this opportunity to restate our position and encourage other units to follow our lead.
▪ The government in response merely restated its previously declared position.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The President restated his intention to veto the bill.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Corresponding amounts for preceding years should be restated where applicable.
▪ Learned gestures can often be restated in words.
▪ Paragraph 6 of Part 1 of Section 2 of this Policy is restated as: 6.
▪ So with the commitment to defending the pound restated, there was caution in the markets.
▪ The rule has not been eliminated; it has just been restated.
▪ Wednesday, Clinton restated his intention to sign the order.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Restate

Restate \Re*state"\ (r?*st?t"), v. t. To state anew.
--Palfrey.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
restate

also re-state, 1713, from re- + state (v.). Related: Restated; restating.

Wiktionary
restate

vb. 1 to state again (without changing) 2 to state differently; to rephrase(jump rephrase s)

WordNet
restate

v. to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, retell]

Usage examples of "restate".

Our Apostleship requires, that the Catholic faith should especially in this Our day increase and flourish everywhere, and that all heretical depravity should be driven far from the frontiers and bournes of the Faithful, We very gladly proclaim and even restate those particular means and methods whereby Our pious desire may obtain its wished effect, since when all errors are uprooted by Our diligent avocation as by the hoe of a provident husbandman, a zeal for, and the regular observance of, Our holy Faith will be all the more strongly impressed upon the hearts of the faithful.

Let me therefore restate that any semiology postulates a relation between two terms, a signifier and a signified.

In the past nine months, scores of corporations-including investor favorites like Waste Management and Sunbeam- had restated previous financial filings, revealing that profits from prior periods had relied on bad accounting.

Logic as the science of thought only as embodied in propositions, in respect of which evidence is to be adduced, or which are to be used as evidence of other propositions, the above laws or principles must be restated as the conditions of consistent argument in such terms as to be directly applicable to propositions.

The secretary of state, as she has restated here, in effect, believes that the election certification that she gives should stand.

Rathbone faced the surveyor when he had been duly reminded of his previous oath and had restated his professional qualifications.

She swallowed hard and restated her assumed name with pretended authority.

While some intelligences can recognize the same God under a variety of names and symbols without any severe strain, others cannot even detect the most contrasted Gods one from the other provided they wear the same mask and title It appears a perfectly natural and reasonable thing to many minds to restate religion now in terms of biological and psychological necessity, while to others any variation whatever in the phrasing of the faith seems to be nothing less than atheistical misrepresentations of the most damnable kind.

Loeb--all he did was to restate destiny, one of humanity's oldest ideas, in the terms of tropisms, infusoria and light.

Even nonwizards of many species know parts of their own species’ Oath in one form or another, often restated in religious or philosophical idiom.

Its compulsion, as it restates the already hypnotic theme, is indescribable—and largely a function of the psychological susceptibilities of the listener.

Simply restating the argument would expose the wily bigot—if bigotry it is—without a big warning label screaming “Racist!

My restating of these obvious physical traits is motivated more by my desire to create a complete and thorough report.

Simply restating the argument would expose the wily bigot—if bigotry it is—without a big warning label screaming "Racist!

Russert tried restating the question several times, but Gore kept insisting he would need to know "the circumstances.