reinstate

Reinstate is to restore someone or something to a previous position or status.

(verb)

When you fire an employee because of a scandal and it later turns out the accusations were not true and you hire him back to his original position, this is an example of a time when you reinstate him to his original position.

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See reinstate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb reinstated, reinstating

to instate again; restore to a former condition, position, etc.

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See reinstate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb re·in·stat·ed, re·in·stat·ing, re·in·states
  1. To bring back into use or existence.
  2. To restore to a previous condition or position.

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  • reˌin·stateˈment noun

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