reoccupationn.

1699 R. Ferguson Just & Modest Vindic. Scots Design 108 For the justifying their own Reassumption, and Re-occupation of them, and for their granting a liberty, freedom and right, to any other Foreigners to settle in those places, as shall come among them.

1791 R. Sadler Wanley Penson III. viii. 255 Methinks I am impelled, irresistibly drawn to the re-occupation of every place which..is now sacred to their memory.

1801 Times 15 June 2/2 The re-occupation of Dusseldorf and other places..is explained to be only for the purpose of obtaining attested evidence of the state of the dismantled towns.

1844 Lanc. Tracts Civ. War 140 The ‘unkept conditions’ [on which Thursland Castle was delivered] appear to relate to the re-occupation of it by Sir John Girlington.

1887 Spectator 28 May 722/1 England and Turkey will possess an exclusive right of re-occupation.

1913 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 52 378 The present distribution is largely a Postglacial re-occupation of lost territory.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 5 Jan. 102/1 The sties should be safe for re-occupation as soon as they have been thoroughly cleaned out and disinfected.

2002 New Internationalist Aug. 25/2 The upper levels of the army..are hostile to any reasonable peace process and are bent on further reoccupation.