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recapture

/ree-kap-cher/US // riˈkæp tʃər //UK // (riːˈkæptʃə) //

夺回,收复,夺回武器,收回

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    re·cap·tured, re·cap·tur·ing.

    • : to capture again; recover by capture; retake.
    • : to take by recapture.
    • : to recollect or reexperience.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the recovery or retaking by capture.
    • : the taking by the government of a fixed part of all earnings in excess of a certain percentage of property value, as in the case of a railroad.
    • : International Law. the lawful reacquisition of a former possession.
    • : the state or fact of being recaptured.

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Examples

  • The furnace owner offered a reward of three pounds each for their recapture.

  • The landowner will continue to come out ahead, but not as much as without land value recapture.

  • He is an expert on land value recapture and author of “Value Capture” and co-author of “Public Benefit Zoning.”

  • My strategy was to bring in the people we never had, not try to recapture the people we lost to Reagan.

  • Before modernism, designers were almost trying to recapture the past.

  • The protest at Recapture Canyon was non-violent, though there were guns present.

  • On each of these privileged descents into Recapture, we walked and climbed down.

  • Was it because your dad really liked those earlier sessions and wanted to recapture some of the magic?

  • More serious still was the news that Porter had been reinforced, and had attacked and expected to recapture the place.

  • All the town is talking of your capture of the French frigate, and the recapture of the two prizes that she had taken.

  • Michael, having failed with Prout, tried to recapture the emotion of his first religious experience at St. Bartholomew's.

  • The Swami made a determined effort to recapture the spotlight.

  • He was trying to recapture them and as he brought them back he laughed.