reimpose

verb

re·​im·​pose (ˌ)rē-im-ˈpōz 

reimposed; reimposing

transitive verb

: to impose (something) again

Months would pass, and one police officer would die, before Canadian soldiers reimposed order.

—John Kalbfleisch

The state of siege, which had been briefly lifted, was reimposed …

—Isabel Hilton

… [U.S.] allies have usually been reluctant to reimpose sanctions after many were lifted as part of the 2015 nuclear accord.

—Mark Landler et al.

… said he will ask his country's congress to reimpose the death penalty, which has been suspended since 2006 …

—Irish Examiner (online)

EU governments in the passport-free Schengen zone would be able to reimpose border controls when faced with extraordinary flows of migrants …

—BBC News (online)

… residents could vote to reimpose property taxes in order to provide additional local funding.

—Lonnie Harp

reimposition

(ˌ)rē-ˌim-pə-ˈzi-shən 

noun

plural reimpositions

… doesn't want the forcible reimposition of a right-wing dictatorship.

—Christopher Hitchens

Examples of reimpose in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The secret meeting was held as an April 18 deadline approached for the United States to decide whether to reimpose sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry in response to what Washington sees as Maduro’s failure to make good on commitments for free and fair elections later this year. —Reuters, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2024

To limit any internal opposition to his agenda, the report also calls for Trump to reimpose an executive order that Biden revoked, enabling him to fire thousands of civil servants across his administration and replace them with political appointees. —Jonathan Mahler Edoardo Ballerini Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024

Getty Images | Bloomberg With the Federal Communications Commission preparing to reimpose net neutrality rules and common-carrier regulation on Internet service providers, the broadband industry is almost certain to sue the FCC once the decision is made. —Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2023

Earlier on Monday, White House’s spokesperson John Kirby had said Maduro had until April to return to the negotiating table and commit to what was agreed last year, including holding free elections where all candidates are allowed to run, or sanctions could be reimposed. —Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024

But Maduro's team had been violating parts of that deal for months now, and the pressure had been growing on President Joe Biden to do something in response -- with even a group of Democratic Senators writing a letter to the administration Monday calling for sanctions to be reimposed. —Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 29 Jan. 2024

The third measure would reimpose financial limits on campaign contributions. —James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2023

That would be desirable if the goal of this action is to restore regional stability by reimposing caution on Iran and its functionaries. —The Editors, National Review, 5 Feb. 2024

The administration, for now, is not reimposing the more severe designation of foreign terrorist organization on the Houthis. —Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 18 Jan. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1611, in the meaning defined above