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re-institute

re-institute is the alternative form of reinstitute.

Meaning of reinstitute

Verb

reinstitute (third-person singular simple present reinstitutes, present participle reinstituting, simple past and past participle reinstituted)

  1. To institute for a second or subsequent time.
    • Near-synonyms: reestablish, restitute, restore

Forms of re-institute

third-person singular presentre-institutes
present participlere-instituting
past participlere-instituted
pastre-instituted

Questions about re-institute

What is re-institute the alternative form of?
Re-institute is the alternative form of reinstitute.

Words near re-institute in the dictionary

  1. re-inkable
  2. re-install
  3. re-installed
  4. re-installing
  5. re-installs
  6. re-institute
  7. re-instituted
  8. re-institutes
  9. re-instituting
  10. re-intervention
  11. re-interventions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-institute (page history and authors); reinstitute (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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