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

The lawsuit accuses the administration of violating the First Amendment and asks a district judge in Massachusetts to stop any future harm from the federal government, declare the Trump’s administrations demands unconstitutional and reinstitute the university’s funding. —Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 21 Apr. 2025

But the National Association of Home Builders is still advocating for an exemption for building materials, should the tariffs be reinstituted. —Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025

Project 2025 called for the next Republican president to reissue or reinstitute that order. —Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025

Yet, many top schools have reinstituted their testing requirements in recent years—and students have shifted course accordingly. —Christopher Rim, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1600, in the meaning defined above