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recaption

recaption noun: the lawful claim and recovery, by a person, of goods wrongly taken from him.

Noun

recaption (countable and uncountable, plural recaptions)

  1. The lawful claim and recovery, by a person, of goods wrongly taken from him
    • The ordinance affirmed the common-law right of masters to recapture fugitives on their own, without coming before a magistrate. By contrast, Article IV omitted mention of self-help recaption or reclamation.2005, Akhil Reed Amar, America's Constitution: A Biography

Verb

recaption (third-person singular simple present recaptions, present participle recaptioning, simple past and past participle recaptioned)

  1. (transitive) To assign a new caption to.
    • The newspaper was forced to recaption the photograph to avoid a libel suit.

recaption meaning in Urdu

recaption in Urdu

انتقامی کاروائی

Forms of recaption

Noun
pluralrecaptions
Verb
third-person singular presentrecaptions
present participlerecaptioning
past participlerecaptioned
pastrecaptioned

Origin of recaption

From re- + caption.

Questions about recaption

What does recaption mean?
Recaption means the lawful claim and recovery, by a person, of goods wrongly taken from him.
What is recaption in Urdu?
Recaption in Urdu is انتقامی کاروائی. See Recaption meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is recaption?
Recaption can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of recaption?
The plural of recaption is recaptions.

Words near recaption in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: recaption (page history and authors); recaption (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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