re

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Pronunciation
/ɹiː/
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/ɹiː/ · /ɹeɪ/

Definition of re

24 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

prep

  1. About, regarding, with reference to; used especially in letters, documents, emails and case law.
    “Re A (conjoined twins) [2000] EWCA Civ 254”
    “"I know it's been a long haul, but can we please not get complacent re: our annual magic gunk explosion? I can't believe I just typed those words."”
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prep

  1. About, regarding, with reference to; used especially in letters, documents, emails and case law.
    “Re A (conjoined twins) [2000] EWCA Civ 254”
    “"I know it's been a long haul, but can we please not get complacent re: our annual magic gunk explosion? I can't believe I just typed those words."”
  2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of re (“regarding”).

noun

  1. (uncountable)A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang)Clipping of rematch.
    “gg, no re'”
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of reinsurance, used in the branding of reinsurance company names.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal)Clipping of age regressor.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of recursively enumerable; the class of decision problems for which a “yes” answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time. See more at RE (complexity) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of religious education.
  7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of rare earth.
  8. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of response element.
  9. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of real estate.
  10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of renewable energy.
  11. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism)Initialism of run-time environment.
  12. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of reverse engineering.
  13. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of reproductive endocrinologist.
    “I am new to this group and have not had the courage to post many messages. I just had my second/follow-up apointment with my RE today. I have only recently been diagnosed with PCO and had the routine tests, HSG, etc.. done. Today, we talked about those results and what our next plan of action is.”

name

  1. (Egyptian, alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Ra.
  2. Reinsurance.
    “Swiss Re”
  3. A municipality of Vestfold, Norway.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Royal Engineers, a regiment in the British Army.
  5. The station code of Rewari Junction railway station in India.
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft.

symbol

  1. rupee
  2. Earth radius: the radius of planet Earth, regarded as a unit of measurement.
  3. The radius of the Earth specifically.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rē, ablative of rēs (“thing, matter, topic”).

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