repatrol
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A patrol of an area that was already previously patrolled.
Example Sentences
- "There is, however, some solid ground in this area that need not presently be repatrolled."
- "Three visits were made and, in view of Isabi's low population (P.D.S. 1979 - 68 Residents) it was decided not to repatrol yet again."
- "There were no fixed targets, no objectives, no highways to take—it was patrol and repatrol, search and destroy."
- "The United States Coast Guard also has furnished the committee with records of depth soundings taken in the North Atlantic in the course of its repatrol work which have their application to the study of the seismic area of the Grand Banks."
- "...medical scheme, travel on appointment and repatrol."
- "... thought it smarter to move them down there and make productive use of that 8-days' transit time that they were spending on a repatrol."
Etymology
From re- + patrol.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: re