noun

(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.

A municipality of Vestfold, Norway.

(in company names) Reinsurance.

(rail transport) The station code of Rewari Junction railway station in India.

(video games, slang) Clipping of rematch. [A repeated contest staged between the same opponents or teams which played a previous contest.]

(marketing) Clipping of reinsurance, used in the branding of reinsurance company names. [(business, insurance) Insurance purchased by insurance companies that spreads the risk associated with selling insurance around so the danger of one large monetary loss is minimized. Such insurance and catastrophe bonds are backstops to insurer insolvency from unexpectedly large losses.]

(informal) Clipping of age regressor [One who undergoes age regression.]

(Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Ra. [(Egyptian mythology) The Egyptian god of the Sun.]

Abbreviation of real estate. [Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground on which they are built.]

Abbreviation of renewable energy. [Energy that is collected from renewable resources, such as wind, water, or the sun, usually and especially as applied to a category of electrical generation.]

Abbreviation of religious education. [The teaching of a particular religion, and its doctrines, beliefs etc.]

Initialism of Royal Engineers, a regiment in the British Army.

Abbreviation of rare earth. [(chemistry) Any of the naturally occurring oxides of the lanthanide metals; they are widely distributed in relatively small concentrations and are used in glassmaking, ceramic glazes etc.]

(computing theory, computational complexity theory) Abbreviation of recursively enumerable; the class of decision problems for which a 'yes' answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time.

(computing) Abbreviation of reverse engineering. [The process of analyzing the construction and operation of a product in order to manufacture a similar one.]

(computing, countable) Abbreviation of run-time environment.

(biochemistry, genetics) Initialism of response element.

(classics) Abbreviation of Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft.

Roots

rere- · Latin · again, back

Words related to re

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