RECOMMIT

recommit

(verb) send back to a committee; “The bill was recommitted three times in the House”

recommit

(verb) commit again; “It was recommitted into her custody”

recommit

(verb) commit once again, as of a crime

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

recommit (third-person singular simple present recommits, present participle recommitting, simple past and past participle recommitted)

commit again

Source: Wiktionary


Re`com*mit" (-mt"), v. t.

Definition: To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

9 March 2025

CLOG

(verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired; “Fear clogged her mind”; “The story was clogged with too many details”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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