recommence

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See also: recommencé

English

Etymology

From Middle French recommencer, from Old French recommencier.

Verb

recommence (third-person singular simple present recommences, present participle recommencing, simple past and past participle recommenced)

  1. To begin again.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs.
    • 2020 July 29, Ian Prosser discusses with Paul Stephen, “Rail needs robust and strategic plans”, in Rail, page 40:
      [...] Prosser was instrumental in the decision in 2010 to recommence publication of an annual health and safety report, following a period when it had fallen into abeyance.

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French

Verb

recommence

  1. inflection of recommencer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative
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