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reconsent

reconsent noun: a second or subsequent consent.

Noun

reconsent

  1. A second or subsequent consent.
    • Another approach, called the selective, repeated, or reconsent model, requires that participants consent to each individual future study that wishes to use their data.2015 July 9, “Fair Shares and Sharing Fairly: A Survey of Public Views on Open Science, Informed Consent and Participatory Research in Biobanking”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Verb

reconsent (third-person singular simple present reconsents, present participle reconsenting, simple past and past participle reconsented)

  1. (intransitive) To consent again.
  2. (transitive) To obtain the consent of (a participant in a study, etc.) again.

Forms of reconsent

third-person singular presentreconsents
present participlereconsenting
past participlereconsented
pastreconsented

Origin of reconsent

From re- + consent.

Questions about reconsent

What does reconsent mean?
Reconsent means a second or subsequent consent.
What part of speech is reconsent?
Reconsent can be a noun or a verb.

Words near reconsent in the dictionary

  1. reconsecrated
  2. reconsecrates
  3. reconsecrating
  4. reconsecration
  5. reconsecrations
  6. reconsent
  7. reconsented
  8. reconsenting
  9. reconsents
  10. reconservation
  11. reconserve

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