recaption

English

Etymology

re- +‎ caption

Noun

recaption (countable and uncountable, plural recaptions)

1. (law) The lawful claim and recovery, by a person, of goods wrongly taken from him

Verb

recaption (third-person singular simple present recaptions, present participle recaptioning, simple past and past participle recaptioned)

1. (transitive) To assign a new caption to.

   The newspaper was forced to recaption the photograph to avoid a libel suit.

Anagrams

• captioner, preaction, precation