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

After being abandoned at the federal level after WWI, the U.S. government reinstituted daylight saving time on an emergency basis throughout the mid to late 20th century. —Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 1 Nov. 2025

Bookstores started reinstituting the horror shelf. —Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025

Newsom made very clear that his actions are solely a response to the Texas plan and that California's nonpartisan map drawing approach would be reinstituted at a later date. —Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025

The law reinstituted wear-and-tear expenses as being tax-deductible, increasing the amount of the write-off. —Tobias Burns, The Hill, 31 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1600, in the meaning defined above