Definition of "recalculate" [recalculate]

• To calculate again, especially in order to eliminate errors or to incorporate additional factors or data. (verb-transitive)

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• "The closest thing to an empirical economic argument is Johnson's notion that we should now go back and "recalculate" economic growth, subtracting all the bad mortgages and loans and losses."
• "Check out with the shopping cart as usual, then click "recalculate" to receive the discount from your order."
• "I mean if you have the president of this country, Al Maliki saying, you know, excuse me, the prime minister saying he wants U.S. troops out by 2010 as an aspirational timeline, you've got to kind of recalculate if you're John McCain, no?"