reapply
/riːəˈplʌɪ
/verb (reapplies, reapplying, reapplied)
1 [no object] Make another application or request: he intended to reapply for his old post...
- While those over 70 have to reapply for a driving licence every three years, they are allowed to fill out the medical questionnaire themselves.
- He will have to take an extended driving test if he reapplies for a driving licence.
- Under new legislation, all licensees have had to reapply for their licence - whether they want to just convert their existing licence or vary it to include extended hours or entertainment.
2 [with object] Apply (an existing rule or principle) in a different context: principles that may be reapplied in different circumstances...
- The source code itself can be sometimes reused, but more importantly, the learning that is represented in the source code can be reapplied in different contexts without major problems.
- When I went over there to his office in Switzerland, he was still truly a regional architect, taking those principles that he had learned and reapplying them in this new context.
- He explains that he's reapplied those principles learned in France at his restaurants.
3 [with object] Spread (a substance) on a surface again: reapply the sunscreen hourly...
- He reapplied some different ointments and re-wrapped some all of the bandages he just took off.
- I quickly pull out a strawberry flavored lip gloss and gently apply, then reapply it to my lips.
- Apply it 30 minutes before exposure and reapply every 2 hours.
Derivatives
reapplication
- Cost for a new application is $3.60 per linear foot, a reapplication is $2.95 per linear foot and dust control along a secondary highway is $5 per linear foot.
- A Scottsdale, Arizona, company has developed an environmentally friendly answer to slippery grips that does not require constant reapplication or disappear with sweat.
- The lady in question is a Carlow Town native who wishes to remain anonymous lest her imminent reapplication for the medical card be jeopardised.
- make a production of
- make a (quick) quid
- make a rod for one's own back
- (make a) run for it
- make a spectacle of oneself
- make a splash
- make a virtue of
- make away with
- make a —— fist of
- makebate
- make-bate
- make-before-break
- make-belief
- make-believe
- make book
- make (both) ends meet
- make-break
- make capital out of
- make certain
- make common cause
- make conversation
- make do
- make do and mend
- makee
- makee-learn