to reseat
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4.5
- verb
- /ˌriːˈsiːt/
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- When the guests arrived late, the host asked them to reseat themselves at the table to make room for the newcomers.
Examples
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I've been to restaurants that have reseated me in a new spot when I wasn't happy with the other spot, or when I was seated up against loud drunks and moved myself (which is much more mature than running and complaining).
Blog text (9) -
-Just sit down and I'll reseat you once we are up in the air.
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Excuse me, Miss, we need to be reseated.
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Once we were all reseated, he went to the front of the room and started bobbing his head at each of us.
Fiction book (2001) -
And no one will be reseated during the climactic revelation.
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"And you feel you would be unable or unwilling to perform... "the duties listed on the safety card, please ask a flight attendant to reseat you."
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Patrick rushes up behind her, grabs the menu, and reseats himself at a "better" table near the front.
Fiction book (2000) -
The state had to reseat the black legislators, remove former Confederates from office, and ratify the Fifteenth Amendment.
Academic text (2011) -
Henry reseats most of them, getting the young boy who'd been spreading sawdust to squeeze a lot of folding chairs together to create some extra seating.
Fiction book (2001) -
It was not allowed to rejoin until the black legislators were reseated and the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in July 1870.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
165
1.8
To show people where to sit
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3.9
To move something to another place
To move something or someone to a new place
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reseat is made of the prefix re- meaning 'again' and the word seat. So to reseat someone is to 'seat again' — to move or show them to a different chair or place.