recap
/ɹiːˈkæp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To replace the worn tread on a tire by gluing on a new outer portion.
Canadian usage; American usage
noun
verb
To recapitulate.
noun
A leveraged recapitalization accomplished by increasing the debt to equity ratio.
Example Sentences
- "They're planning to recap those oil wells permanently."
- "They buy a lot of camelback because they recap a lot of truck tires for trailer fleets."
- "In 1942 almost 86,000,000 pounds of camelback—a 25-percent increase over 1941—were made available for recapping purposes, and the output of this product is continually increasing. Dealer establishments are as busy as beehives. They have about 90 percent of the recapping equipment. In the testimony before you yesterday one of the proponents of this bill admitted that independent dealers had 88 percent of all the recapping machinery there is in the United States. We estimate that it is probably about that figure, although we thought it was a little higher, probably 90 percent. In addition to recapping tires for the general public, they also are doing this work on Government-owned tires, including the military, with the result that the independent dealer has retreaded hundreds and hundreds of thousands of tires, at a substantial profit, during said period."
- "Are recapped tires safe? This is obviously the thing to know before you consider buying recaps."
- "He refused to buy recaps because he didn't trust them not to come apart on the highway."
- "As she did so, Stacy noted that the tire had been a recap—a tire created by gluing a new outer portion of tread onto the worn inner core of old tires."
Etymology
From re- + cap.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: re