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re-man

re-man is the alternative form of reman.

Meaning of reman

Verb

reman (third-person singular simple present remans, present participle remanning, simple past and past participle remanned)

  1. To supply with new personnel.
    • For a short time in the later stages of World War I, one of the 4-6-0s was utilised also on a slow train from Perth to Glasgow, returning with the 1.30 p.m. from Glasgow to Aberdeen, on which it was remanned at Perth; it came back to Perth with the 8 p.m. fish train from Aberdeen.1959 June, A. G. Dunbar, “The "Cardeans" of the Caledonian”, in Trains Illustrated, page 312

Forms of re-man

third-person singular presentre-mans
present participlere-manning
past participlere-manned
pastre-manned

Questions about re-man

What is re-man the alternative form of?
Re-man is the alternative form of reman.

Words near re-man in the dictionary

  1. Re-Leaver
  2. Re-Leavers
  3. re-let
  4. re-lets
  5. re-letting
  6. re-man
  7. re-manned
  8. re-manning
  9. re-mans
  10. re-mark
  11. re-marked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-man (page history and authors); reman (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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