reinstate
Other forms: reinstated; reinstating; reinstates
When you reinstate someone, you return that person to a position or job. A principal might reinstate a laid off teacher when the school starts hiring again.
Bosses can reinstate employees, countries can reinstate kings and queens, and governments can reinstate, or bring back, old laws. For example, during times of war the United States could very well reinstate the draft, which is not currently a law but has been in the past. Although it's not as common as reinstate, the word instate, from which it comes, means "to put someone in a certain state or condition."
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bring back into original existence, use, function, or position
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restore to the previous state or rank
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rehabilitate
reinstall politically
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reconstruct, restore
return to its original or usable and functioning condition
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rehabilitate
/ˌˈriɪnˌsteɪt/
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In this second book of the Supernatural Investigations series, thirteen-year-old Amari Peters of Atlanta's Whitman Preparatory Academy must compete for the Crown in order to save her brother, stop a war, and prevent the future of magic from being controlled by evil forces.
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Sixth-graders Topher Renn, Brand Walker, and Steve Sakata of Fox Ridge Elementary School learn that their favorite teacher must take a leave of absence because of her health, so they make arrangements to give her the perfect last day that she had described during a writing lesson.
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