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re-recognition

re-recognition is the alternative form of rerecognition.

Meaning of rerecognition

Noun

rerecognition (uncountable)

  1. (rare) A resumed or additional recognition, especially after a lapse or pause.
    • The osteopaths have helped many of these patients, since the nature of the malady has been forgotten by most doctors of the scientific era. Valleix and his contemporaries described the headaches many years ago. Their modern rerecognition has come chiefly through the Swedish sources.1913, Lewellyn F. Barker, Smith Ely Jelliffe, “XVIII: Neuroses”, in Frank Billings, editor, Forchheimer's Therapeusis of Internal Diseases, volume IV, New York: D. Appleton & Company, page 605

Questions about re-recognition

What is re-recognition the alternative form of?
Re-recognition is the alternative form of rerecognition.

Words near re-recognition in the dictionary

  1. re-ratifying
  2. re-re-opening
  3. re-read
  4. re-reading
  5. re-reads
  6. re-recognition
  7. re-record
  8. re-recorded
  9. re-recording
  10. re-recordings
  11. re-records

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