to reopen

Examples

• All

• My dream is for somebody at Live Nation to see this podcast and help me reopen Starwood for two nights next year.

• Regular testing will take place of staff and students in school and in due course help us to reopen schools as soon as possible.

• Well, then maybe we could now reopen our country, get back to work.

  Meet Kevin

• And two, how do you reopen schools?

• The company plans to reopen the facility by the first of the year.

  Academic text (1995)

• Uh, sorry, but the bar will reopen after the speeches.

  Problemista (2024)

• We need to reopen negotiations.

  The Negotiator (1998)

• The Catholic schools were among the first to reopen and establish these conditions after the storm.

  Academic text (2011)

• I think negotiations have just been reopened.

  Camp Daze (2005)

• Zoos, theme parks and drive in cinemas will reopen, as will public libraries and community centres.

Synonyms

R

to reactivate

vsto reopen

41 4.3

To make something work again after it stopped

makes something available again by moving a cover or barrier rather than restoring function

R

to reaccess

vsto reopen

5.1

To open a file or account again to use it

restores entry by moving a cover or barrier that was shut

Antonyms

C

to close

∞ 1.0

To shut something so it is not open

Idioms

R

to reopen old wounds

• Informal

1 7.4

Cause people to remember old hurts or problems

How Open

to fly open

11 3.3

to unseal

20 4.3

to reopen

182 1.4

to open

∞ 1.0

to close

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology