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re-release

re-release is the alternative spelling of rerelease.

Meaning of rerelease

Verb

rerelease (third-person singular simple present rereleases, present participle rereleasing, simple past and past participle rereleased)

  1. To release (a film, video game, etc.) again.
    • For example, in 1926 MGM's desire to rerelease their 1921 hit The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse led to discussions between Hays and the German ambassador.2000, Matthew Bernstein, Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era

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Forms of re-release

Verb
third-person singular presentre-releases
present participlere-releasing
past participlere-released
pastre-released
Noun
pluralre-releases

Questions about re-release

What is re-release the alternative spelling of?
Re-release is the alternative spelling of rerelease.

Words near re-release in the dictionary

  1. re-registration
  2. re-reject
  3. re-rejected
  4. re-rejecting
  5. re-rejects
  6. re-release
  7. re-released
  8. re-releases
  9. re-releasing
  10. re-remind
  11. re-reminded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-release (page history and authors); rerelease (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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