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reprise

[ri-prahyz for 1; ruh-preez for 2, 3] Example Sentences Origin

re·prise

[ri-prahyz for 1; ruh-preez for 2, 3] noun, verb, -prised, -pris·ing.
noun
1.
Usually, reprises. Law. an annual deduction, duty, or payment out of a manor or estate, as an annuity or the like.
2.
Music.
a.
a repetition.
b.
a return to the first theme or subject.
verb (used with object)
3.
to execute a repetition of; repeat: They reprised the elaborate dance number in the third act.

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Reprise is always a great word to know.
So is summons. Does it mean:
binding two or more persons who may be sued separately on a common obligation
a call or citation by authority to appear before a court or a judicial officer

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French: a taking back, Old French, noun use of feminine past participle of reprendre to take back < Latin reprehendere to reprehend

reprisal, reprise.
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  • But a greater threat is a reprise of the spring and summer of that year, when commodity prices soared.
  • In a lame reprise of the horrifying torture sequence that.
  • Ford tried to reprise the successes of its past by turning a prosaic economy car into a spiffy personal coupe.
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reprise (rɪˈpriːz)
 
n
1.  the repeating of an earlier theme
 
vb
2.  to repeat (an earlier theme)
 
[C14: from Old French, from reprendre to take back, from Latin reprehendere; see reprehend]

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reprise
early 15c., "yearly deduction from charges upon a manor or estate," from O.Fr. reprise "act of taking back," fem. of repris, pp. of reprendre "take back," from L. reprendere (see reprisal). Meaning "resumption of an action" is from 1680s. Musical sense is from 1879. The
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verb is attested from mid-15c.
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