re-establishment

1. 1.

   restoration to a previous state

   “regular exercise resulted in the re-establishment of his endurance”

   Broaderrestoration

Questions about re-establishment

What does re-establishment mean?

re-establishment means "restoration to a previous state".

How many syllables are in re-establishment?

re-establishment has 4 syllables and divides as re-e-sta-blish-ment under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is re-establishment a common word?

re-establishment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.