Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive & intransitive verb To open or be opened again.
  • transitive & intransitive verb To take up again or be taken up again; resume.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To open again: as, to reopen a theater.
  • To be opened again; open anew: as, the schools reopen to-day.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb To open again.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To open (something) again.
  • verb intransitive To open again.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb open again or anew

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

re- +‎ open

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Examples

  • When you actually stop trading once it's reopen, that is a bit of a problem.

    CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2008 2008

  • Makes you wonder if this rush to reopen is too much too soon.

    CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2005 2005

  • View It » it went bankrupt anyway. its not like it was going to go bankrupt and close its doors. it would've gone into receivership, worked off what debt it could and reopen, which is what it did. after eating

    Propeller Most Popular Stories normallysilent 2010

  • View It » it went bankrupt anyway. its not like it was going to go bankrupt and close its doors. it would've gone into receivership, worked off what debt it could and reopen, which is what it did. after eating

    Propeller Most Popular Stories normallysilent 2010

  • View It » it went bankrupt anyway. its not like it was going to go bankrupt and close its doors. it would've gone into receivership, worked off what debt it could and reopen, which is what it did. after eating

    Propeller Most Popular Stories normallysilent 2010

  • View It » it went bankrupt anyway. its not like it was going to go bankrupt and close its doors. it would've gone into receivership, worked off what debt it could and reopen, which is what it did. after eating

    Propeller Most Popular Stories normallysilent 2010

  • View It » it went bankrupt anyway. its not like it was going to go bankrupt and close its doors. it would've gone into receivership, worked off what debt it could and reopen, which is what it did. after eating

    Propeller Most Popular Stories normallysilent 2010

  • View It » it went bankrupt anyway. its not like it was going to go bankrupt and close its doors. it would've gone into receivership, worked off what debt it could and reopen, which is what it did. after eating

    Propeller Most Popular Stories normallysilent 2010

  • View It » it went bankrupt anyway. its not like it was going to go bankrupt and close its doors. it would've gone into receivership, worked off what debt it could and reopen, which is what it did. after eating

    Propeller Most Popular Stories normallysilent 2010

  • View It » it went bankrupt anyway. its not like it was going to go bankrupt and close its doors. it would've gone into receivership, worked off what debt it could and reopen, which is what it did. after eating

    Propeller Most Popular Stories normallysilent 2010

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