noun [U] ~ (into sth)
1 the act of returning to a place or an area of activity that you used to be in:
She feared she would not be granted re-entry into Britain. * a re-entry programme for nurses (= for nurses returning to work after a long time doing sth else)
2 the return of a spacecraft into the earth's atmosphere:
The capsule gets very hot on re-entry.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for re-entry is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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