regrant

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ grant.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈɡɹɑːnt/

Verb

regrant (third-person singular simple present regrants, present participle regranting, simple past and past participle regranted)

  1. (transitive) To grant (something) again or in a different way.
    • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 371:
      It was regranted to one of the new faces of the regime, a man now basking in the favour of Richard Fox and the young king: Thomas Wolsey.

Noun

regrant (plural regrants)

  1. The act of granting back to a former proprietor.
  2. A renewal of a grant.
    the regrant of a monopoly

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for regrant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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