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recaps

recaps is the plural of recap.

recaps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of recap.

Meaning of recap

Noun (1)

recap (plural recaps)

  1. A tire that has had new tread glued on.
    • He refused to buy recaps because he didn't trust them not to come apart on the highway.
    Synonyms:
    retread

Noun (2)

recap (plural recaps)

  1. A recapitulation.
    • Before we begin with today's agenda, Alice will give us a recap of recent decisions.

Noun (3)

recap (plural recaps)

  1. A leveraged recapitalization accomplished by increasing the debt to equity ratio.
    • A survey of private equity firms found that most firms are comfortable with a debt/equity ratio of 4:1 following a dividend recap.2009, Thomas Kirchner, Merger Arbitrage: How to Profit from Event-Driven Arbitrage, →ISBN, page 196

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Questions about recaps

What is recaps the plural of?
Recaps is the plural of recap.

Words near recaps in the dictionary

  1. recapped
  2. recapper
  3. recappers
  4. recapping
  5. recappings
  6. recaps
  7. recaption
  8. recaptioned
  9. recaptioning
  10. recaptions
  11. recaptivate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recaps (page history and authors); recap (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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