Definition of "reassert" []

• Assert again (verb)

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• "Iraq to disrupt the March 7 election and said it was trying to "reassert" itself as political parties negotiate the formation of the next government, which probably will take months."
• "The strike, he said, was being held to "reassert" the bargaining power of the trade unions."
• "As the historian Nancy Cott puts it, “Post-Revolutionary legislators wanted to reassert their authority over what some people had done under the aegis of local tolerance.”"