Word Meanings - REPOSSESSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or the state of possessing again.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPOSSESSION)

• Recovery
• Repossession
• regaining
• reinstatement
• vindication
• renovation
• restitution
• re-establishment
• retrieval
• rectification
• replacement
• reanimation
• resuscitation
• revival
• redemption

Related words: (words related to REPOSSESSION)

• RENOVATION
  The act or process of renovating; the state of being renovated or renewed. Thomson. There is something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation of the world. Rabbler.
• REDEMPTIONER
  1. One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude. 2. Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• REDEMPTIONIST
  A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian.
• REANIMATION
  The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.
• RESTITUTION
  The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body. (more info) 1. The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or
• REVIVALISM
  The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.
• VINDICATION
  The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of
• REINSTATEMENT
  The act of reinstating; the state of being reinstated; re
• REVIVAL
  The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. Specifically: Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature. Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature. Renewed interest in religion,
• RETRIEVAL
  The act retrieving.
• REDEMPTIONARY
  One who is, or may be, redeemed. Hakluyt.
• RECOVERY
  The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court. 4. The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had. "Help be past recovery." Tusser. 5. In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position
• RESUSCITATION
  The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated. The subject of resuscitation by his sorceries. Sir W. Scott.
• REGAIN
  To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again. Syn. -- To recover; reobtain; repossess; retrieve.
• REVIVALISTIC
  Pertaining to revivals.
• REPOSSESSION
  The act or the state of possessing again.
• REVIVALIST
  A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively.
• RECTIFICATION
  The determination of a straight line whose length is equal a portion of a curve. Rectification of a globe , its adjustment preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem. (more info) 1. The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification
• PREPOSSESSION
  1. Preoccupation; prior possession. Hammond. 2. Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions