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reauthorizes

reauthorizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 reauthorizes

What is reauthorizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Reauthorizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reauthorize.

Words near reauthorizes in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reauthorizes (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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