re-examination
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In United States patent law, a procedure under which an issued patent is returned to the examiner to determine if it remains valid in light of newly discovered prior art.
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Mr. Dunbar also urged re-examination of present track maintenance methods."
- "Inverclyde Royal Hospital in Greenock told 198 patients to return for re-examination last month after the NHS said they had not received the full range of checks."
- "Barker believed that evidence was emerging that a "solid proportion" of operations were "grossly uneconomic", and that no amount of improvement in equipment would make them viable. He suggested that "while the superstructure of the report is correct, the foundations require radical re-examination"."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English examination English re-examination From re- + examination.
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- American usage