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 recent disagreement between Maryland and Virginia over the latter’s choice to reinstitute winter crab dredging, a practice that could threaten the Bay’s female blue crab supply, is a case in point. —Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2024

But antiabortion activists are already circulating names of staunch antiabortion advocates to run a Trump Food and Drug Administration, which could unilaterally reinstitute restrictions on mifepristone, our colleague Caroline Kitchener writes. —Mckenzie Beard, Washington Post, 28 June 2024

The zoom link was reinstituted as soon as possible. —Kelsey Oliver, Sacramento Bee, 17 June 2024

And then the other thing that happened a couple years later was the Supreme Court reinstituted the death penalty in a way that provoked a flurry of emergency applications. —Vox Staff, Vox, 5 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1600, in the meaning defined above