Definition of "recapitalizes" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of recapitalize. (verb)

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• "But I think--every time you see that bailout, you have a kind of a bump in the stock market, but you have most analysts saying, "Look, until they--the creditors take the hit, take the haircut, accept the fact that they put money in a place where they're not going to get it back, and Europe recapitalizes its banks, you're not going to really be able to move forward.""
• "We have also learned that when the government recapitalizes a big private company and wipes out its long term liabilities, it is indeed possible — at the expense of bondholders and to the benefit of unions that contributed to the original problem — to restart a broken company."
• "But the fact is that ever since the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was originated (not by FDR but by Herbert Hoover), and the Resolution Trust Corporation of the 1980s was legislated to clean up the Savings and Loan mess (under that Bolshevik Ronald Reagan), government from time to time takes over failed banks, replaces management, and recapitalizes them with public funds."