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repatrol

repatrol verb: to patrol again.

Verb

repatrol (third-person singular simple present repatrols, present participle repatrolling, simple past and past participle repatrolled)

  1. To patrol again.
    • There is, however, some solid ground in this area that need not presently be repatrolled.1976, Criminal Law Series - Volume 8, Issues 37-41
    • Three visits were made and, in view of Isabi's low population (P.D.S. 1979 - 68 Residents) it was decided not to repatrol yet again.1982, G. J. Slaughter, Field Co-ordinator's Report, page 151

Noun

repatrol (plural repatrols)

  1. A patrol of an area that was already previously patrolled.
    • The United States Coast Guard also has furnished the committee with records of depth soundings taken in the North Atlantic in the course of its repatrol work which have their application to the study of the seismic area of the Grand Banks.1929, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), Report of the National Academy of Sciences, page 88
    • ...medical scheme, travel on appointment and repatrol.1969, The Sierra Leone Gazette - Volume 100, page 196

Examples of repatrol in a sentence

  • There were no fixed targets, no objectives, no highways to take—it was patrol and repatrol, search and destroy.2013, Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, →ISBN:
  • ... thought it smarter to move them down there and make productive use of that 8-days' transit time that they were spending on a repatrol.1984, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, Drug Law Enforcement Strategy (DEA, Coast Guard...

Forms of repatrol

Verb
third-person singular presentrepatrols
present participlerepatrolling
past participlerepatrolled
pastrepatrolled
Noun
pluralrepatrols

Origin of repatrol

From re- + patrol.

Questions about repatrol

What does repatrol mean?
Repatrol means to patrol again.
How do you use repatrol in a sentence?
There were no fixed targets, no objectives, no highways to take—it was patrol and repatrol, search and destroy.
What part of speech is repatrol?
Repatrol can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of repatrol?
The past tense of repatrol is repatrolled.

Words near repatrol in the dictionary

  1. repatriation
  2. repatriational
  3. repatriations
  4. repatriator
  5. repatriators
  6. repatrol
  7. repatrolled
  8. repatrolling
  9. repatrols
  10. repats
  11. repattern

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