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reauthorized

reauthorized is the simple past and past participle of reauthorize.

Meaning of reauthorize

Verb

reauthorize (third-person singular simple present reauthorizes, present participle reauthorizing, simple past and past participle reauthorized)

  1. (transitive) To authorize again, to give authority to anew.
    • Even in the ultrapolarized atmosphere of Capitol Hill, it should be possible to secure broad bipartisan agreement on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, the 1994 law at the center of the nation’s efforts to combat domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking.2012 February 9, “Republicans Retreat on Domestic Violence”, in The New York Times

Questions about reauthorized

What is reauthorized the simple past and past participle of?
Reauthorized is the simple past and past participle of reauthorize.

Words near reauthorized in the dictionary

  1. reauthorises
  2. reauthorising
  3. reauthorization
  4. reauthorizations
  5. reauthorize
  6. reauthorized
  7. reauthorizes
  8. reauthorizing
  9. reauthors
  10. reautopsied
  11. reautopsies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reauthorized (page history and authors); reauthorize (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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