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recontact

recontact

6.3
A second time of getting in touch with someone for more information
  • noun
  • /ˌriːˈkɒntækt/
translation icon : recontacto
  • After several years, I decided it was time for a recontact with my old friend to catch up.
  • recontact efforts

Examples

  • No limit was set on the number of recontact attempts for each telephone number.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Privacy and confidentiality regulations are intended to prevent potentially sensitive information from being disclosed and to guide research procedures for recontact.

    Academic text (2008)
  • It's a recontact list of all our assets here, including those who identify and paint targets for us in the tribal areas.

  • Balancing privacy rights and recontact efforts.

    Academic text (2008)
  • In 2001, Daniel R. Anderson published the results of a massive longitudinal study called "The Recontact Study" as a monograph of the Society of Research in Child Development.

    Blog text (18)
  • Finally, methodological research on these recontact issues is needed to assist both PIs and IRBs in their decision-making processes.

    Academic text (2008)
  • PIs identified three broad topics that we will briefly review: (a) creating an environment for informed and voluntary consent, (b) designing appropriate participant payment, and (c) balancing privacy rights and recontact efforts.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Comprehensive yet flexible research protocols regarding (a) informed and voluntary consent, (b) participant payment, and (c) recontact efforts are essential for securing IRB approval of longitudinal substance abuse studies.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Balancing the interests of research participants with the needs of scientifically rigorous procedures requires compromises and affects at least three areas: (a) informed and voluntary consent, (b) participant payment, and (c) recontact efforts.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The researcher planned a recontact with participants to gather more data for the study.

Synonyms

call-back
vsrecontact
15 3.6

Calling someone again after missing their call or message

refers to any later communication or meeting, not only telephone replies
reconnection
vsrecontact
1 3.9

Connecting again after a time apart, often between people or places

is about a later communication or meeting rather than restoring links
reencounter
vsrecontact
6.8

A meeting with someone you know from before after time apart

is broader, covering any repeat communication or meeting
reapproach
vsrecontact
8.1

A second attempt to contact or deal with someone after the first try

describes an actual later communication or meeting, not only an attempt

Surface Forms

recontact singular
recontacts plural

Morphology

recontact = contact (transparent) = re + contact

The meaning is a straightforward repetition of a previous contact, so 're-' + 'contact' is readily interpretable.

Etymology

Recontact comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and the word contact meaning 'touch' or 'communication'. As a noun, a recontact is simply a later meeting or message after the first one, so it means a second or later communication.