Definition of "re-" []

• Again; anew: rebuild. (prefix)
• Backward; back: react. (prefix)
• Used as an intensive: refine. (prefix)

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• "This is a difficult reality, and we are working closely with our employees and partners to identify long-term re- employment programs for the talented people of Nokia, he added."
• "Rehn said that while debt restructuring is "off the table" because of the domino effect on European markets, alternatives such as a Vienna-style fix and so-called re- profiling were being considered."
• "So a hat tip to these fourteen, the first I've seen of these (dare, I say) patriots -- or "Lincoln Legislators," as Lakoff elects to (re-)fashion them."