Meaning & use
re-enter
To enter a place, situation, or state again after having left it.
See it in a sentence
The spacecraft will re-enter Earth's atmosphere at a precisely calculated angle.
After years working abroad, she found it difficult to re-enter the job market at home.
A note on using this word
Re-enter is often written with a hyphen to avoid confusion with reenter, though both spellings are accepted in American English.
Words with a similar meaning
returnreenter
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Words with an opposite meaning
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