Definition

1. Verb:
   • To restore to a previous position, condition, or status: To bring someone or something back to a former state, especially a position of authority, employment, or operation.
   • To reestablish or reintroduce: To cause a system, rule, or practice to be effective or used again.

Usage

The verb "reinstate" is transitive and requires a direct object. It is commonly used in formal or official contexts related to employment, law, policy, and order. It often implies an official or authoritative act of restoration.

Examples

• General Usage:
  • The court ordered the company to reinstate the unfairly dismissed employee.
  • After the investigation cleared his name, they voted to reinstate him as chairman of the committee.
• System/Policy Context:
  • The government plans to reinstate the tax credit for first-time home buyers.
  • The airline will reinstate flights to the capital next month.

Advanced Usage

• "to reinstate someone in something": To formally restore someone to a specific position, right, or condition.
  • The tribunal reinstated her in her former role with full back pay.
• "to reinstate something as something": To reestablish something in a particular capacity or function.
  • The old policy was reinstated as the primary guideline.

Variants and Related Words

• Reinstatement (noun): The action of giving someone back a position or privilege.
  • He sought reinstatement to his former post.
• Reinstatable (adjective): Capable of being restored to a former state or position. (Less common)

Synonyms

• Restore: To return something to its original condition or owner.
• Reestablish: To establish again.
• Return: To give, put, or send something back.
• Bring back: To cause something to exist or be used again.

Antonyms

• Remove: To take away.
• Dismiss: To discharge from employment or service.
• Suspend: To temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force.
• Abolish: To formally put an end to a system, practice, or institution.

Related Phrases

• "Call for reinstatement": To publicly demand that someone or something be restored.
  • The protests called for the reinstatement of the popular minister.
• "Full reinstatement": Restoration with all previous rights, benefits, and seniority intact.
  • The arbitrator awarded her full reinstatement.

Verb

1. bring back into original existence, use, function, or position
   • restore law and order
   • reestablish peace in the region
   • restore the emperor to the throne
2. restore to the previous state or rank