reinstate

5 definitions • 8 examples

to give someone back their previous job or position, or to cause something to exist again:

A month after being unfairly dismissed, he was reinstated in his job.

The Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

to put someone back in a job or position previously held, or to put a law or rule back into effect:

She will be reinstated to her full professorship and receive back pay and benefits.

The hospital suspended Goldstein during the investigation but reinstated him when the report cleared him of any wrongdoing.

to give back to someone a job or position that was previously taken from them:

She went to the committee and asked to be reinstated.

reinstate sb as sth Having cleared his name in court he was reinstated as CEO.

to bring back a rule, agreement, process, etc. that was previously stopped:

The new director has reinstated weekly finance meetings.

to put back into a document something that was previously removed:

Please reinstate the paragraph about compensation.