retake - Definition from the MILITARY topic - POLITICS

Topic: MILITARY

retake
1 verb

re‧take1

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[transitive]

1PM to get control of an area again in a war [= recapture]:

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an attempt to retake the city

2SE to take an examination again because you have previously failed it [= resit British English]

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