reinstatement

1. 1.

   the condition of being reinstated

   “her reinstatement to her former office followed quickly”

   Broadercondition
2. 2.

   the act of restoring someone to a previous position

   “we insisted on the reinstatement of the colonel”

   Broaderrestoration

Other forms of reinstatement

plural

reinstatements·

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 reinstatement

What does reinstatement mean?

reinstatement means "the condition of being reinstated". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reinstatement?

reinstatement has 4 syllables: rein-sta-te-ment. The stress falls on "te". In IPA it is /ˌɹiɪnˈsteɪtmənt/.

Is reinstatement a common word?

reinstatement is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 reinstatement?

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