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reintroduction

reintroduction

6 4.1
Bringing something or someone back after a time away
  • noun
  • /ˌriːɪntrəˈdʌkʃən/
: reintroducción
  • After years of absence, the politician's reintroduction to the public sparked much interest.
  • wolf reintroduction
  • tiger reintroduction
  • reintroduction program

You don't really know that until you go through systematic reintroduction and re challenging.

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Examples

  • The Turkish experiment opened the way for the reintroduction of secularism into the debate about democracy.

    Academic text (2005)
  • And this was kind of her reintroduction to the world.

  • I think it's time we had a proper reintroduction.

  • An important result of these developments was the reintroduction of precision movement of units to the European battlefield.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The most productive members of the Incubator program will be considered for reintroduction to society.

  • What's your attitude to the reintroduction of species that were wiped out completely?

  • Leonard cannot imagine a more enthralling reintroduction to the world and stares at it all with wonder.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • The biologists organized a reintroduction of the endangered species into its natural habitat.

  • The program focuses on the reintroduction of traditional farming practices in the community.

Synonyms

re-establishment
vsreintroduction
1 4.9

Bringing something back to how it was before

focuses on bringing someone or something back after withdrawal rather than restoring condition
reinstitution
vsreintroduction
1 6.8

Bringing back a rule or practice after it stopped

focuses on bringing someone or something back after absence rather than restoring function

Antonyms

162 2.0

Taking something or someone away from a place

145 4.1

Removing people or things from a place

How Widely

reintroduction
6 4.1
to mention
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

reintroduction = reintroduce (transparent) = re + introduct + ion

The noun is a regular nominalization of the verb 'reintroduce', so learners who know the verb can easily infer the meaning.

Etymology

The word reintroduction comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and introduce meaning 'to bring in'. So a reintroduction is the act of bringing something or someone back after a period away.