Meaning & use

re-enter

verb·Academic

To enter a place, situation, or state again after having left it.

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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

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