- 1reinstate somebody/something (in/as something) to give back a job or position that had been taken away from someone He was reinstated in his post.
- 2reinstate something (in/as something) to return something to its previous position or status synonym restore There have been repeated calls to reinstate the death penalty. Tennis has now been reinstated as an Olympic sport.
reinstate
verbNAmE//ˌriɪnˈsteɪt//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they reinstate he / she / it reinstates
past simple reinstated
-ing form reinstating
noun [uncountable]See reinstate in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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