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reintroduction en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English introduction English reintroduction From re- + introduction.

Meanings

1. The act of introducing something again.
   • On the passenger-carrying 1 ft. 11½ in.-gauge Vale of Rheidol branch from Aberystwyth to Devils Bridge, however, the 2-6-2 tank engines are to be named for the reintroduction of the train service for this summer on June 11. 1956 May, “W.R. Narrow-Gauge Engine Names”, in Railway Magazine, page 280:
   • Earlier this year, the Taliban also announced the reintroduction of the public flogging and stoning of women for adultery. 2024 August 26, Annie Kelly, Zahra Joya, “‘Frightening’ Taliban law bans women from speaking in public”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2024:
2. The release of animals from captivity into the wild, especially, into an area where they have become extirpated or greatly reduced.
   • Klopfer and Gamble (1966) gave 16 female goats (C. hircus) 5 min of contact with their young at parturition. Nine of the mothers had been temporarily rendered anosmic (could not smell) at parturition by spraying a 10% cocaine hydrogen chloride solution into their nostrils 20–90 min prior to parturition. […] Eight of the nine females who were anosmic at parturition but could smell at reintroduction accepted their own offspring, as well as alien young during reinstatement. 2008, Edward O. Price, “Maternal and Neonatal Behavior”, in Principles and Applications of Domestic Animal Behavior: An Introductory Text, Wallingford, Oxfordshire; Cambridge, Mass.: CABI, →ISBN, page 149:
   • The IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature), for example, restricts use of the word ʽreintroductionʼ to species that have become extinct locally or Europe-wide no more than 200 to 300 years ago. 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 195:
   • A wildlife foundation called Elephant Havens, based at the edge of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, has developed a long-term reintroduction project. 2023 July 22, Ashley Strickland, “A herd of orphan elephants could be the key to bringing back the woolly mammoth”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2023:
3. (countable) An animal so released.

Forms

Relateds

reintroduce

Translations (4)

fr réintroduction (the act of introducing something again) · pl reintrodukcja (the act of introducing something again) · fi uudelleenesittely (the act of introducing something again) · nl herinvoering (the act of introducing something again)