Reinstatement

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reinstatement \Re`in*state"ment\ (-ment), n.
     The act of reinstating; the state of being reinstated;
     re?stablishment.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  reinstatement
       n 1: the condition of being reinstated; "her reinstatement to her
            former office followed quickly"
       2: the act of restoring someone to a previous position; "we
          insisted on the reinstatement of the colonel"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "reinstatement":
     about-face, backing, backsliding, clearance, clearing,
     destigmatization, destigmatizing, disenchantment, exculpation,
     explanation, flip-flop, improvement, instauration, justification,
     lapse, purgation, purging, rationalization, reactivation,
     recidivation, recidivism, reclamation, reconstitution,
     reconversion, redintegration, reenactment, reestablishment,
     reformation, regress, regression, rehabilitation, reinstation,
     reinstitution, reinvestiture, reinvestment, relapse, replacement,
     restitution, restoration, retrocession, retrogradation,
     retrogression, retroversion, return, returning, reversal, reverse,
     reversion, reverting, revulsion, slipping back, turn, turnabout,
     vindication