SINCE 1828
reenlist
verb
re·en·list
| \ (ˌ)rē-in-ˈlist
, -en-\
, -en-\
variants:
or re-enlist
reenlisted
or re-enlisted;
reenlisting
or re-enlisting
Definition of reenlist
1
transitive
: to enlist (someone) again
… watched as Bickers's platoon leader reenlisted him for another two years.— Paula Broadwell and Vernon Loeb
2
intransitive
: to enlist again
decided to reenlist in/with the Navy … had recently emerged from the ranks of the Royal Army Medical Corps, in which he had re-enlisted two years after the end of the second war.— Anthony Powell
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