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Reexamination   /riɪgzˌæmənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Examination  n.  
1.
The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.
2.
A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry. "He neglected the studies,... stood low at the examinations."
Examination in chief, or Direct examination (Law), that examination which is made of a witness by a party calling him.
Cross-examination, that made by the opposite party.
Reexamination, or Re-direct examination, (Law) that questioning of a witness at trial made by the party calling the witness, after, and upon matters arising out of, the cross-examination; also called informally re-direct.
Synonyms: Search; inquiry; investigation; research; scrutiny; inquisition; inspection; exploration.


Reexamination  n.  A repeated examination. See under Examination.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Reexamination" Quotes from Famous Books



... were set in battle array with the buff and blue against the red coats, and herein Carleton saw visions and dreamed dreams, which his pen, like the camera which chains the light, was to photograph in words. He had made his preliminary studies, readings, personal interviews, and reexamination of the region, and had written four or five chapters, when the call of the Captain to another detail of service came ...
— Charles Carleton Coffin - War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman • William Elliot Griffis
... laughed. "I thought if it were Miss Hawley I could go to her and explain the matter and ask her to give you a reexamination. Miss Hawley's occasionally human. But Miss Prescott! No wonder you flunked. I'm afraid of her myself. She's the only woman that ever got a degree at some German university, and she simply hasn't a thought in the world beyond mathematics. I don't ...
— When Patty Went to College • Jean Webster


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