to reaccelerate
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- verb
- /ˌriːˈæk.sə.lə.reɪt/
- Nevertheless, we acknowledge AAPL could reaccelerate earnings growth and build a competitive barrier through product innovation, for example, with a TV product, or through increased stickiness of its existing products.
Examples
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The WEO forecast assumes that they do, and thus global activity is projected to reaccelerate in the course of 2012; if they do not, the forecast will likely be disappointed once again.
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Will the GDP suddenly reaccelerate from a 1.5% rate to the 4% expected by share prices when?
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And now I release the throttle, shift gear, accelerate, reaccelerate.
Fiction book (1992) -
They stop and lurch forward, reaccelerating with deep, emphysematic coughs.
Fiction book (1992) -
However, this stagnation has always been a "siren's song" to economists and analysts who interpret the data as "a soft patch," "a mild slowdown," "a Goldilocks economy," "a pause before reaccelerating," etc.
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After slowing down on the highway, the driver decided to reaccelerate to reach the speed limit again.
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The economy is expected to reaccelerate as consumer spending increases in the coming months.
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Following the break, the athlete managed to reaccelerate and finish the race strong.
Synonyms
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To move faster or make something happen faster
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To make something faster or more active
Antonyms
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
reaccelerate = accelerate (transparent) = re + accelerate
This is a standard and fully compositional use of re- meaning 'again' added to the verb 'accelerate'.
Etymology
Reaccelerate comes from the part re- 'again' and accelerate 'to make faster', so imagine pressing a car's accelerator pedal again after you slow down. So, to reaccelerate is to speed up again after stopping or slowing.