reseat

verb

re·​seat ˌrē-ˈsēt How to pronounce reseat (audio)
reseated; reseating; reseats

transitive verb

: to seat (someone or something) again: such as
a
: to cause or help (someone) to be seated again
I stood gazing at him awhile … and then reseated myself at my desk.—Herman Melville
… the standard company procedure is, whenever one passenger complains about another, to either reseat one of the passengers [=move one of the passengers to a different seat] or investigate further.—Chris Matyszczyk
b
: to fit (something, such as a part of a machine) back into or on a seat (see seat entry 1 sense 5b)
The customer reseated the cartridges and the printer started working.—Alex Cranz

Examples of reseat in a Sentence

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Flight attendants will usually try to reseat you, but Carr acknowledged that can be difficult when a flight is very full. — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024 If the use of such electronic devices, such as keyboards, are distracting, persons using keyboards may be reseated and/or such use may be prohibited by the court. — Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025 After defense objections, the judge reseated one Black juror, citing the otherwise all-white jury. — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 8 May 2026 The malfunction that caused the propellant leak appears to have been with a valve that did not properly reseat during the propulsion system's initialization sequence. — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for reseat

Word History

First Known Use

1606, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of reseat was in 1606

Rhymes for reseat

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“Reseat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reseat. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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