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recapture definition

re·cap·ture (rē kap′c̸hər)

transitive verb recaptured -·tured, recapturing -·tur·ing

  1. to capture again; retake; get back by capture; reacquire
  2. ☆ to get by recapture ()
  3. to bring back by remembering to recapture a feeling

noun

  1. a recapturing or being recaptured
  2. ☆ the placing in reserve or the taking by the government under law of a fixed portion of all business earnings exceeding a specified percentage of property value
  3. ☆ that which is recaptured
  4. postliminium

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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