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re-entry

 noun
     
re-en‧try plural re-entries [uncountable and countable]
1 when someone starts being involved in something again or enters a place again
re-entry into
America's successful re-entry into the Japanese auto market
2 when a spacecraft enters the earth's atmosphere again:
The satellite burned up on re-entry.
—re-enter verb [intransitive and transitive]
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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