reteamv.
/ˌriːˈtiːm/, U.S. /riˈtim/ Originally U.S.
1. transitive. To team again (in various senses); to form into a new team or teams. In later use chiefly: to reunite or team up again (two or more actors, etc.) for a further film; to reunite (an actor, etc.) with another for a further film.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or fact of uniting or being united > unite [verb (transitive)] > again
reunite1579
reunite1596
readunitea1600
reapproach1663
reunify1879
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1902 Documents City Boston, 1902 III. No. 51. 60 Teaming and reteaming plank walk.
1934 Miami (Okla.) Daily News-Record 17 June 7/7 Heeding the request of thousands of fans to re-team these two screen sweethearts, the studio started an intensive search for a story that would be suitable for their reunion.
1953 Rocky Mountain (N. Carolina) Sunday Telegram 19 Apr. 6 b/2 Betty Grable..was re-teamed with the dapper Dan Daily in ‘Call Me Mister’.
1972 Council on Anthopol. & Educ. Newslet. 3 22 These professionals will be teamed and reteamed to create mini-faculties.
1993 Playboy Feb. 51/3 ‘The War of the Roses’, a creepy divorce story that reteamed him—as director and fellow actor—with Douglas and Turner.
2002 Sci. Fiction Chron. May 46/3 This reteams the actor with Jennifer Connelly, his costar in A Beautiful Mind.
2. intransitive. Of a two or more people: to reunite or team up again, esp. for a further film. Of one person: to reunite with another, esp. for a further film.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or fact of uniting or being united > unite [verb (intransitive)] > again
reunite1613
reteam1942
1942 Los Angeles Times 5 Feb. i. 8/1 (heading) ‘Nymph’ duo may reteam.
1954 Daily Reporter (Dover, Ohio) 24 Feb. 6/7 Former Dead End Kids Huntz Hall and Gabe Dell..have just reteamed as a comedy act.
1968 Billboard 20 Apr. 3/1 The orchestra leader..left Dot to reteam with Wood.
1993 News Express 30 Aug. 3/1 Garfunkel will re-team with his former partner for 16 consecutive nights of all-star Simon retrospective concerts.
2004 Screen Internat. 25 June 16/3 His low-budget revenge drama Dead Man's Shoes,..sees him re-team with actor-writer Paddy Considine.
Derivatives
reˈteamed adj.
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1953 Rocky Mount (N. Carolina) Sunday Telegram 22 Mar. 6 b/7 (caption) The reteamed stars appear on the Tower screen starting Thursday.
2002 M. A. Cassata Elton John Scrapbk. ix. 109/2 Elton again relied on his recently reteamed bandmates.
reˈteaming n.
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1939 Los Angeles Times 31 Oct. i. 8/1 Reteaming of Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell in a film to follow ‘Broadway Melody of 1940’ is indicated in New York advices.
2006 Touch Dec.–Jan. 61/2 At last a credible re-teaming of Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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