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/ɹiˌɪtɝˈeɪʃən/
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[ UK /ɹˌiːˌɪtəɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɹˌiːˌɪtəɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof)
How To Use reiteration In A Sentence
- When speaking with a bureau staff member, she "got, basically, a reiteration of the recorded message," she recalls.
- One might be tempted to disregard this relatively unqualified opinion had it not found reiteration in several critical writings.
- An upfront reiteration by the South African presidency that it will not countenance ballot rigging and improper retention of power, would be both appropriate and timeous," he said. ANC Daily News Briefing
- The point that needs reiteration is that we had every single thing that was needed in 1968-69 to create a solar system wide society and we pissed it away. Today's Video: Like None Other - Restored Moon Images to Help Future Moon Missions - NASA Watch
- The text is largely a reiteration of what any well-read designer already knows.
- The English linguists Halliday and Hasan classify reiteration into four parts: repetition, synonym, hyponymy and general word.
- The production also swathes the play in endless reiterations of the aria that gives the play its title.
- The very oversight perceptible to any eye and painful to any ear not sealed up by stepdame nature from all perception of pleasure or of pain derivable from good verse or bad -- the reckless reiteration of the same rhyme with but one poor couplet intervening -- suggests rather the oversight of an unfledged poet than the obtuseness of a full-grown poeticule or poetaster. A Study of Shakespeare
- This phenomenon, sometimes called the reiteration effect, is well-studied and well-documented. Fool Me Thrice, and I'll Trust You, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- Reiteration of a decade-old deception could not fail to foster an enhanced sense of futility.