re
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/ɹiː/
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/ɹiː/ · /ɹeɪ/
Definition of re
24 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included
prep
-
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
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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."”
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of re (“regarding”).
noun
- (uncountable)A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
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(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang)Clipping of rematch.
“gg, no re'”
- (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of reinsurance, used in the branding of reinsurance company names.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal)Clipping of age regressor.
- (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
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of religious education.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of rare earth.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of response element.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of real estate.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of renewable energy.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism)Initialism of run-time environment.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of reverse engineering.
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(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
- (Egyptian, alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Ra.
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Reinsurance.
“Swiss Re”
- A municipality of Vestfold, Norway.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Royal Engineers, a regiment in the British Army.
- The station code of Rewari Junction railway station in India.
- (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft.
symbol
- rupee
- Earth radius: the radius of planet Earth, regarded as a unit of measurement.
- The radius of the Earth specifically.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rē, ablative of rēs (“thing, matter, topic”).
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