regrant
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Verb
regrant (third-person singular simple present regrants, present participle regranting, simple past and past participle regranted)
- (transitive) To grant (something) again or in a different way.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 371:
- It was regranted to one of the new faces of the regime, a man now basking in the favour of Richard Fox and the young king: Thomas Wolsey.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 371:
Noun
regrant (plural regrants)
- The act of granting back to a former proprietor.
- A renewal of a grant.
- the regrant of a monopoly
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “regrant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)