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  • verb Present participle of reseat.

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Examples

  • Two senior officials—a senior Socialist Party leader and a cabinet minister—said the government's survival could depend on reseating top cabinet posts after the parliament votes through the new austerity measures at the end of June.

    Greek PM Under Pressure to Reshuffle Cabinet Costas Paris 2011

  • However, the judge didn't dismiss the alternates after deliberations began, giving him the option of reseating an alternate juror.

    Galleon Deliberations to Start Anew After Juror Is Dismissed Chad Bray 2011

  • Two senior officials—a senior Socialist Party leader and a cabinet minister—said the government's survival could depend on reseating top cabinet posts after the parliament votes through the new austerity measures at the end of June.

    Greek PM Under Pressure to Reshuffle Cabinet Costas Paris 2011

  • CtW said that "reseating Lady Judge may be the Massey board's most fundamental corporate governance failure."

    Judge Resigns From Massey Board 2010

  • My hands commenced a series of tasks they knew instinctively: reseating the refueling probe, putting the flaps in “auto,” turning the expendables on, calling up the targeting pod, selecting the gun, slewing the pod toward the target area.

    A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

  • She compressed her lips, but subsided, reseating herself.

    Gatlinburg 2010

  • The cops refused, though; they insisted on reseating them elsewhere in the stadium and in watching them during the few minutes of the fourth quarter that remained once they'd been resettled.

    Is That Legal?: Constitutional Law Archives 2007

  • “True — true,” said the monarch, reseating himself;

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Then reseating himself in his chair, he watched his looks and manner: anxiously, it is true, but with the open front of a gentleman who feels he has taken no part which he need excuse or palliate.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • ‘With me!’ ejaculated Mr. Pickwick, rising nervously from his chair, and reseating himself directly afterwards.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

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