recaption
English
Etymology
re- + caption
Noun
recaption (countable and uncountable, plural recaptions)
- (law) The lawful claim and recovery, by a person, of goods wrongly taken from him
Verb
recaption (third-person singular simple present recaptions, present participle recaptioning, simple past and past participle recaptioned)
- (transitive) To assign a new caption to.
- The newspaper was forced to recaption the photograph to avoid a libel suit.
Anagrams
- captioner, preaction, precation