recaption

English

Etymology

re- + caption

Noun

recaption (countable and uncountable, plural recaptions)

  1. (law) The lawful claim and recovery, by a person, of goods wrongly taken from him

Verb

recaption (third-person singular simple present recaptions, present participle recaptioning, simple past and past participle recaptioned)

  1. (transitive) To assign a new caption to.
    The newspaper was forced to recaption the photograph to avoid a libel suit.

Anagrams

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