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verb (used with object)
2.
(of a government) to take by recapture.
3.
to recollect or reexperience (something past).
noun
4.
the recovery or retaking by capture.
5.
the taking by the government of a fixed part of all earnings in excess of a certain percentage of property value, as in the case of a railroad.
6.
International Law. the lawful reacquisition of a former possession.
7.
the state or fact of being recaptured.
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