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What (who) is Recapture - definition
recapture
PLAY WRITTEN BY PRESTON STURGES
¦ verb
1. capture (an escapee).
recover (something taken or lost).
2. recreate (a past time, event, or feeling).
¦ noun an act of recapturing.
recapture
PLAY WRITTEN BY PRESTON STURGES
n. in income tax, the requirement that upon sale of property the taxpayer pay the amount of tax savings from past years due to accelerated depreciation or deferred capital gains.
See also: income tax
recapture
PLAY WRITTEN BY PRESTON STURGES
(recaptures, recapturing, recaptured)
1.
When soldiers recapture an area of land or a place, they gain control of it again from an opposing army who had taken it from them.
They said the bodies were found when rebels recaptured the area.
VERB: V n
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Recapture is also a noun.
...an offensive to be launched for the recapture of the city.
N-SING: usu N of n
2.
When people recapture something that they have lost to a competitor, they get it back again.
I believe that he would be the best possibility to recapture the centre vote in the forthcoming election.
VERB: V n
3.
To recapture a person or animal which has escaped from somewhere means to catch them again.
Police have recaptured Alan Lord, who escaped from a police cell in Bolton.
VERB: V n
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Recapture is also a noun.
...the recapture of a renegade police chief in Panama.
N-SING: usu n of n
4.
When you recapture something such as an experience, emotion, or a quality that you had in the past, you experience it again. When something recaptures an experience for you, it makes you remember it.
He couldn't recapture the form he'd shown in getting to the semi-final...
VERB: V n
Wikipedia
Recapture
Recapture is a 1930 drama in three acts by Preston Sturges, his third play to appear on Broadway.
Examples of use of Recapture
1. Details concerning his recapture were not made public.
2. Fourth, most importantly, Labour must recapture the green agenda.
3. Barber himself once got as far as Denmark before recapture.
4. The sentence was backdated to his recapture on Jan. 21.
5. Desperate to recapture her youth and dignity, but achieving neither.