reintroduce

verb

re·​in·​tro·​duce (ˌ)rē-ˌin-trə-ˈdüs 

-ˈdyüs

reintroduced; reintroducing

transitive verb

: to introduce (someone or something) again

efforts to reintroduce the animals into the wild

They'd been touring hard, reintroducing themselves to audiences nearly a decade after going their separate ways.

—James Sullivan

… the company has taken the bold step of reintroducing hits from the past.

—Lynn Yaeger

reintroduction

(ˌ)rē-ˌin-trə-ˈdək-shən 

noun

plural reintroductions

Three years later it became the core site for reintroduction of the red wolf, a species officially extinct in the wild.

—Cheryl Lyn Dybas

Examples of reintroduce in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

By the end of 2028, some 1,000 skilled Swedes should be on call to help protect energy supply as part of compulsory civic duty — a form of national service suspended after the Cold War and reintroduced this year. —Lars Paulsson, Fortune Europe, 24 Apr. 2024

Great Lakes wolves are genetically distinct from the Northern Rockies wolves that were reintroduced. —Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 24 Apr. 2024

In other wildlife news, the closest living relatives of the Xerces Blue butterfly — the first U.S. butterfly species to go extinct due to human development — are being reintroduced at the Presidio of San Francisco, as the Associated Press’ Haven Daley and Olga R. Rodriguez write. —Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2024

The cloning research doesn’t replace the need for recovering ferrets in the wild, and the Fish and Wildlife Service is continuing to work on reintroducing animals, monitoring ones currently living in the wild and preserving their habitats. —Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024

Carvel just reintroduced the orange dreamy creamy flavor — one of their most beloved flavors from the 1970s — in several iterations. —Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024

One big change Choi made was to reintroduce remote work, a rarity in post-COVID South Korea. —Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024

Then the beans are soaked in that water to reintroduce flavor. —Kristen Rogers, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024

In 2019, one year before Colorado voters approved the controversial ballot measure to reintroduce wolves, CPW announced the arrival of a collared female wolf from a Wyoming pack. —Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 4 Apr. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1642, in the meaning defined above