Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of retaking or recovering.
- noun The condition of having been retaken or recovered.
- noun The act or an instance of retaking booty or goods.
- noun The recovery by the government of the amount of money equal to certain tax benefits or unpaid because of deductions previously taken by a taxpayer.
- noun The procedure for such recovery.
- transitive verb To capture again.
- transitive verb To recall or recreate.
- transitive verb To acquire by the government procedure of recapture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of retaking; particularly, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.
- noun That which is recaptured; a prize retaken.
- To capture back or again; retake, particularly a prize which had been previously taken.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.
- noun That which is captured back; a prize retaken.
- transitive verb To capture again; to retake.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
capturing again. - verb to
capture something for a second or subsequent time, especially after a loss
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of taking something back
- verb experience anew
- noun a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount
- verb take up anew
- verb capture again
- verb take back by force, as after a battle
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Examples
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And frankly, it depends on what you call recapture because as we said before, some of this is going to be fee increases; some of it's going to become -- it's going to be expense management; some of it is going to come from greater volume as we increase the value proposition to our customers.
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Zoe Lofgren yesterday introduced a bill into the House to do what they call recapture 550000 visas at a time when the unemployment rate in this country is 6.1 percent.
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Zoe Lofgren yesterday introduced a bill into the House to do what they call recapture 550000 visas at a time when the unemployment rate in this country is 6.1 percent.
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Zoe Lofgren yesterday introduced a bill into the House to do what they call recapture 550,000 visas at a time when the unemployment rate in this country is 6.1 percent.
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June 2 -- Germans recapture from the French the sugar refinery at
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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-- [This part begins with a long account of her escape, her fortunes at Holby and London, and her recapture, which is here omitted, as it would be to a large extent a repetition of what has already been stated.] -- After Brandon left me my heart still throbbed with the fierce impulse which he had imparted to it.
Cord and Creese James De Mille
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Her recapture was a bloody deed, but the law of self-preservation is inexorable under such circumstances.
The Adventure Of Elizabeth Morey, of New York 1901 Louis Becke 1884
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They had been battened down below for the last forty-eight hours, because the fear of a recapture was the nightmare of every prizemaster.
Mr. Midshipman Easy Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 1873
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Previous awards have also included so-called recapture provisions.
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Previous awards have also included so-called recapture provisions.
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