reexamination

1. 1.

   (law) questioning of a witness by the party that called the witness after that witness has been subject to cross-examination

   Synonymsredirect examination

   Broaderinterrogation

   law

2. 2.

   a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment

   Synonymsfollow-upfollowupreview

   Broaderexamination

Other forms of reexamination

plural

reexaminations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reexamination

What does reexamination mean?

reexamination means "(law) questioning of a witness by the party that called the witness after that witness has been subject to cross-examination". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reexamination?

reexamination has 6 syllables: re-ex-am-i-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ɹiɪɡˌzæməˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for reexamination?

Close synonyms include redirect examination, follow-up, followup, review. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reexamination a common word?

reexamination 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.

What rhymes with reexamination?

73 words rhyme with reexamination. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.