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RE-ESTABLISHMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does re-establishment mean?
• RE-ESTABLISHMENT (noun)
The noun RE-ESTABLISHMENT has 1 sense:
1. restoration to a previous state
Familiarity information: RE-ESTABLISHMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Restoration to a previous state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
regular exercise resulted in the re-establishment of his endurance
Hypernyms ("re-establishment" is a kind of...):
restoration (the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state)
Context examples
Mr. Micawber, supremely defiant of him and his extended finger, and making a great deal of his chest until he had slunk out at the door, then addressed himself to me, and proffered me the satisfaction of witnessing the re-establishment of mutual confidence between himself and Mrs. Micawber.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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