recharter
verb
re·char·ter
(ˌ)rē-ˈchär-tər 
rechartered; rechartering; recharters
: to grant a new charter to
Facing re-election in July 1832, President Jackson vetoed a bill to recharter the Bank of the United States.—
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Andrew Jackson explained his veto of Congress’s bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States as being based on its unconstitutionality, even though the Supreme Court had approved Congress’s authority to so act years earlier.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
But their grip on the banking system soon succumbed to populist challenges, culminating in the failure, in 1832, of the attempt to recharter the federal government’s nationwide Bank of the United States.
—Charles W. Calomiris, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
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Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
But their grip on the banking system soon succumbed to populist challenges, culminating in the failure, in 1832, of the attempt to recharter the federal government’s nationwide Bank of the United States.
—Charles W. Calomiris, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
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“Recharter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recharter. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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