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re-open

re-open is the alternative form of reopen.

Meaning of reopen

Verb

reopen (third-person singular simple present reopens, present participle reopening, simple past and past participle reopened)

  1. (transitive) To open (something) again.
    • From the moment of the declaration by Germany, she would reopen her inhuman warfare by the indiscriminate use of submarines.1920, Breckinridge Long, US Ambassador to Italy, a speech titled America's Accomplishments
  2. (intransitive) To open again.
    • The new law allows the twelve Federal Reserve Banks to issue additional currency on good assets and thus the banks which reopen will be able to meet every legitimate call.1933, Franklin Roosevelt, Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, 12 March 1933

Forms of re-open

comparativemore re-open
superlativemost re-open

Questions about re-open

What is re-open the alternative form of?
Re-open is the alternative form of reopen.

Words near re-open in the dictionary

  1. re-odorants
  2. re-oil
  3. re-oiled
  4. re-oiling
  5. re-oils
  6. re-open
  7. re-opening
  8. re-openings
  9. re-order
  10. re-org
  11. re-organise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-open (page history and authors); reopen (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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