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"Recapture" Definition

noun

Law The act or an instance of retaking booty or goods.
Something recaptured.
The act of retaking or recovering.
The condition of having been retaken or recovered.
The lawful taking by a government of a fixed amount of the profits of a public-service corporation in excess of a stipulated rate of return.

verb

To capture again.
To experience again .
To take (as a portion of earnings or profits above a fixed amount) by law or through negotiations under law.

verb-transitive

To acquire by the government procedure of recapture.
To capture again.
To recall: an attempt to recapture the past.

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