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reëxamination

reëxamination is the rare spelling of re-examination.

Meaning of re-examination

Noun

re-examination (countable and uncountable, plural re-examinations)

  1. A second or subsequent examination.
    • Mr. Dunbar also urged re-examination of present track maintenance methods.1961 December, “Talking of Trains: Manpower economy”, in Trains Illustrated, page 712
  2. Subsequent questioning of a witness after cross-examination.
  3. (US) In United States patent law, a procedure under which an issued patent is returned to the examiner to determine if it remains valid in light of newly discovered prior art.

Forms of reëxamination

pluralreëxaminations

Questions about reëxamination

What is reëxamination the rare spelling of?
Reëxamination is the rare spelling of re-examination.

Words near reëxamination in the dictionary

  1. reëvaluating
  2. reëvoke
  3. reëvoked
  4. reëvokes
  5. reëvoking
  6. reëxamination
  7. reëxaminations
  8. reëxamine
  9. reëxamined
  10. reëxamines
  11. reëxamining

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reëxamination (page history and authors); re-examination (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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