Definitions

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  • verb transitive To staple again or anew.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ staple

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Examples

  • I go through the motions of sealing envelopes, sorting through clippings that have already been sorted, and pulling staples out of documents only to have to restaple them an hour later when another junior exec comes back with them with a smile on my face.

    Good-Bye To All That Margo Candela 2010

  • I go through the motions of sealing envelopes, sorting through clippings that have already been sorted, and pulling staples out of documents only to have to restaple them an hour later when another junior exec comes back with them with a smile on my face.

    Good-Bye To All That Margo Candela 2010

  • Only one more set of legal briefs to unstaple, copy, and restaple, and then I could go home, trade this straitjacket and stockings for a T-shirt and jeans, and make it to Logan’s before practice.

    Shade Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

  • Only one more set of legal briefs to unstaple, copy, and restaple, and then I could go home, trade this straitjacket and stockings for a T-shirt and jeans, and make it to Logan’s before practice.

    Shade Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

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