English Explanatory Dictionary

reissue

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To issue again.
  2. To reprint a series of postage stamps from old plates.
  3. In patent law: to permit a patent with ministerial errors to be corrected and enforced for the remainder of the original term of the patent.
noun
  1. Something that has issued, or been issued again.
  2. A second or subsequent printing of postage stamps from old plates.

Word forms

reissue reissues reissuing reissued re-issue

Etymology

From re- + issue.

Derived words

reissuable reissuer
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