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reconduction

/ˌriːkənˈdʌkʃən/

reconduction noun: repeat undertaking or restoration.

Noun

reconduction (plural reconductions)

  1. Repeat undertaking or restoration.
    • Most importantly, the suicide attacks of 11 September and the ensuing ‘war against terror’ greatly facilitated the neutralization of the protest movement and the ‘reconduction’ of public order.2020, Steffen Erdle, Ben Ali's 'New Tunisia' (1987-2009). A Case Study of Authoritarian Modernization in the Arab World, De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, page 126
  2. (historical) Repeat locatio conductio.
  3. (archaic) The conveying something back, escort to its original place.
    • Since Savarkar was prima facie a political criminal, France demanded that England should give him and should request his extradition in a formal way, but England refused to compl with this demand, and the parties, therefore, agreed to have the conflict decided by the Court of Arbitration at The...1905, Lassa Oppenheim, International Law. A Treatise. Volume I, 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main: Outlook Verlag, published 2018, →ISBN, page 309

Forms of reconduction

pluralreconductions

Origin of reconduction

From reconduct + -ion. Borrowed from Middle French reconduction in the “repeat lease” sense, itself from Medieval Latin recondūctiō from recondūcere already used by classical Roman jurisprudence.

Questions about reconduction

What does reconduction mean?
Reconduction means repeat undertaking or restoration.
What part of speech is reconduction?
Reconduction is a noun.
How do you pronounce reconduction?
Reconduction is pronounced /ˌriːkənˈdʌkʃən/.
What is the plural of reconduction?
The plural of reconduction is reconductions.

Words near reconduction in the dictionary

  1. reconditory
  2. reconds
  3. reconduct
  4. reconducted
  5. reconducting
  6. reconduction
  7. reconductor
  8. reconductored
  9. reconductoring
  10. reconductors
  11. reconducts

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