reinstitute

verb

re·​in·​sti·​tute (ˌ)rē-ˈin(t)-stə-ˌtüt 

-ˌtyüt

reinstituted; reinstituting

transitive verb

: to institute (something) again

… in 1976, the year the Supreme Court reinstituted capital punishment.

—John Cloud

President Carter reinstituted draft registration in 1980 after a seven-year hiatus.

—Stephen Wermiel

reinstitution

(ˌ)rē-ˌin(t)-stə-ˈtü-shən 

-ˈtyü-

noun

Though Hagel stopped short of calling for a reinstitution of the draft, he did talk about the inequities of the current system, in which so many of America's soldiers are poor kids trying to move up a rung on the ladder of employment.

—Anna Quindlen

Examples of reinstitute in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As Speech First was preparing to appeal to the Supreme Court, Virginia Tech disbanded its bias-response team, and the university's president, Timothy Sands, signed an affidavit pledging that the university would not reinstitute the policy. —USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024

And anybody who actually tries to reinstitute themselves within that community is somehow failing, on some level. —Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024

While a top-ranking member of the administration said Bowser (D) plans to reinstitute the emergency soon, advocates and officials who pressed for the measure last year expressed disappointment that it had been allowed to sunset and implored the District to scale up its response to overdoses. —Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024

You're not released into the United States, and, secondly, to reinstitute Title 42. —CBS News, 18 Feb. 2024

The upshot is that the Fifth Circuit’s decision will, if allowed to stand, reinstitute the same prescribing rules in place throughout all but the final year of the Obama administration. —Ryan Bangert, National Review, 18 Dec. 2023

Advertisement For him, preserving the settings and culture of Victor Heights means reinstituting the commercial fabric of the neighborhood by providing affordable rents for first-time small-business owners. —Emily Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023

The legislative push comes in response to a recent push by a Maryland school district to reinstitute mask mandates. —Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2023

Right now, Ukraine’s allies can help most by freeing Ukraine’s Black Sea ports–reinstituting the grain corridor, with or without Russian cooperation, and extending it to steel and other products. —James K. Glassman, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1600, in the meaning defined above