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Past tense of reauthorize

regular verb

The past tense of reauthorize is reauthorized. The past participle is also reauthorized.

Forms of reauthorize

Base form (V1)reauthorize
Past tense (V2)reauthorized
Past participle (V3)reauthorized
Present participlereauthorizing
Third person singularreauthorizes

Reauthorized in a sentence

  • Morris of the Federal District Court in Montana suspended the program, which is administered by the Army Corps of Engineers, saying that it had been improperly reauthorized in 2017.2020 July 6, Adam Liptak, “Supreme Court Won’t Block Ruling to Halt Work on Keystone XL Pipeline”, in The New York Times

Meaning of reauthorize

  1. verb To authorize again, to give authority to anew.

Full definition of reauthorize

Questions about the past tense of reauthorize

What is the past tense of reauthorize?
The past tense of reauthorize is reauthorized.
What is the past participle of reauthorize?
The past participle of reauthorize is reauthorized.
Is reauthorize a regular or irregular verb?
Reauthorize is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reauthorize (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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