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re-issue

re-issue is the alternative form of reissue.

Meaning of reissue

Verb

reissue (third-person singular simple present reissues, present participle reissuing, simple past and past participle reissued)

  1. To issue again.
    • Re-issue, re-package, re-package / Re-evaluate the songs / Double pack with a photograph / Extra track and a tacky badge1987, “Paint a Vulgar Picture”, in Morrissey (lyrics), Johnny Marr (music), Strangeways, Here We Come, performed by The Smiths
  2. To reprint a series of postage stamps from old plates.
  3. In patent law: to permit a patent with ministerial errors to be corrected and enforced for the remainder of the original term of the patent.

See all 5 meanings of reissue

Forms of re-issue

Verb
third-person singular presentre-issues
present participlere-issuing
past participlere-issued
pastre-issued
Noun
pluralre-issues

Questions about re-issue

What is re-issue the alternative form of?
Re-issue is the alternative form of reissue.

Words near re-issue in the dictionary

  1. re-introduced
  2. re-introduces
  3. re-introducing
  4. re-investigation
  5. re-investigations
  6. re-issue
  7. re-issued
  8. re-issues
  9. re-issuing
  10. re-join
  11. re-joined

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-issue (page history and authors); reissue (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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