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to rebook

to rebook

6.5
To record someone as arrested again or charge them with new crimes
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈbʊk/
  • Jargon
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  • If additional charges are found, authorities may rebook the individual.

Examples

  • The judge decided to rebook the defendant's hearing.

  • They will rebook the charges after new evidence is found.

  • The police had to rebook the suspect after discovering new evidence.

  • After the case was reviewed, the prosecutor decided to rebook him on different charges.

  • The suspect was rebooked after new evidence linked him to the crime.

  • After further investigation, she was rebooked under additional charges of fraud.

  • Following the emergence of new witnesses, the police decided to rebook him for robbery.

Antonyms

release
279 1.8

An act of letting someone or something go free from being held

Surface Forms

rebook infinitive
rebooked past
rebooked past participle
rebooking present participle
rebooks third person singular

Morphology

rebook = book (semi-transparent) = re + book

While 're-' implies repetition, the specific legal context of 'rebooking' someone is not immediately obvious.

Etymology

Rebook uses the same parts, re- 'again' and book, where book can mean 'to write a name in a record or list'. So in police or legal language to rebook someone is to 'record them again' with new or different charges.