renewre‧new /rɪˈnjuː $ rɪˈnuː/ ●○○ verb [transitive] 
I need to renew my passport this year.2 formal to begin doing something again after a period of not doing it SYN resume: Local people have renewed their efforts to save the school. Police renewed their appeal for witnesses.renew a friendship/acquaintance etc (=become friendly with someone again)3to remove something that is old or broken and put a new one in its place SYN replace: The window frames need to be renewed.4renew a book to arrange to borrow a library book for a further period of time
VERB TABLE
renew
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | renew |
| he, she, it | renews | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | renewed |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have renewed |
| he, she, it | has renewed | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had renewed |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will renew |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have renewed |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am renewing |
| he, she, it | is renewing | |
| you, we, they | are renewing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was renewing |
| you, we, they | were renewing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been renewing |
| he, she, it | has been renewing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been renewing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be renewing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been renewing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- His firm is renewing efforts to provide in-house computer training.
- Iceland has no immediate plans to renew commercial whaling.
- It is wise to renew your water filter every month, even though it may seem to be working satisfactorily.
- The rebels waited until nightfall to renew their attack on the city.
- The state desperately needs to renew its road system.
- There was nothing to prevent the President from renewing the bombing in the North.
- To renew your license, contact the Department of Motor Vehicles.
- You should check the engine carefully, renewing any parts that are worn or damaged.
- As a result, firms employing them need to recruit frequently to replace those who choose not to renew their contracts.
- From this base, after suitable preparations, McClellan planned to renew his efforts against the Confederate capital.
- I renewed my vow that evening.
- Subsequently I tried to renew contact with Rubinsky, a man more of my generation.
- The conference highlighted and promoted service teaching and learning as a way to build academic and citizenship skills while renewing communities.
- The drainage system over some sections of route has had to be refurbished or renewed.
Longman Language Activatorto continue doing something after stopping
if you continue doing something, or it continues, it starts again after stopping: · After a while the rain stopped, allowing the game to continue.· He has decided to go back to Cambridge to continue his medical studies.· The tour continued after a rest day in Bordeaux.continue doing something: · Have a rest before you continue driving.· He's not sure whether he'll be able to continue skiing competitively after the operation.
to start again , continuing the same thing that you were doing before you stopped, or continuing to happen in the same way as before: · He stopped exercising after the injury, but recently he's started again.start something again: · I've had a good vacation and I'm not exactly looking forward to starting work again.start doing something again: · After a two-week rest I was ready to start running again.· Billy was afraid to say anything in case she started crying again.start to do something again: · Marian stared through the window. It was starting to snow again.
also carry on British to continue doing something after stopping for a short time: · Occasionally he would stop writing, read through what he had written, and then go on.· It's one o'clock now. Shall we carry on after lunch?go on/carry on doing something: · After a short break for coffee, they went on working until 3 o'clock.· She decided to carry on working after having the baby.go on with: · Let's stop now. We'll go on with this tomorrow.· As soon as Mr Saunders gets back, we'll carry on with the meeting.
to start doing a particular job again after a period when you were doing something else. Return to is more formal than go back to: · Melanie made herself a cup of tea and then went back to her reading.· Some mothers return to full-time work only a few weeks after their baby is born.go back to/return to doing something: · If he can't get work as an actor, he can always go back to being an electrician.
formal if you resume something or it resumes , it continues after a pause or interruption: · Collins was so seriously injured that he was unable to resume his career.· The jurors are anxious to resume their normal lives again.resume doing something: · He said no more, and resumed reading his newspaper.
to start doing something such as a sport or activity again after a long period of time when you were not doing it: take something up again: · I stopped playing the guitar when I was fifteen, but now I'd like to take it up again.take up something again: · Now that I don't have to work in the evenings, I'd like to take up sketching again.
to start something again at exactly the same point where you stopped: · After a long absence I went back to college, hoping to pick up where I'd left off.· The team has picked up where they left off last spring.· Negotiators will meet again after the holidays and take up where they left off.
if someone reopens a formal discussion, trial etc, or it reopens , it starts again after stopping, especially because new information has been found: · The two sides are prepared to reopen peace talks.· The action is likely to reopen debates about affirmative action.· Police have decided to reopen the investigation in the light of important new evidence.
to start to do something again - use this especially about activities done by governments and military organizations: · The rebels waited until nightfall to renew their attack on the city.· Iceland has no immediate plans to renew commercial whaling.
to put something new in the place of something old, damaged, or broken · Your car's in good condition but you ought to replace the tires.· Before we move in, the place has to be redecorated and all the carpets replaced.replace something with something · They're going to replace the old wooden bridge with one made of concrete.
British to replace something, such as a piece of machinery or equipment, after it has been used for a certain length of time and is damaged or likely to be damaged: · You should check the engine carefully, renewing any parts that are worn or damaged.· It is wise to renew your water filter every month, even though it may seem to be working satisfactorily.
to replace a piece of equipment when it is broken or not working: · Can you change this light bulb for me? I can't reach.· All drivers should really know how to change a flat tire.· You should change or clean your furnace filter once a month to improve performance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY I need to renew my passport this year. He began working with renewed vigour.
I need to renew my passport this year. (=become friendly with someone again)
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=made again, often in a more forceful way)· The government faced renewed accusations of corruption.
(=make an appeal again)· Detectives renewed their appeal for help from the public.
(=arrange to continue borrowing it from a library)· If you need to renew a book, you can do it by phone.
(=give someone another contract when their old one ends)· I hope they will renew my contract at the end of the year.
(=starting again, with increased energy or interest)· After lunch, she went about the task with renewed enthusiasm.
(=become friends again)· They renewed their friendship after the war.
(=starting again after it had stopped)· There has been a renewed interest in abstract painting in recent years.
(=keep a lease for a longer period of time)· The company decided not to renew the lease on the office.
· The licence must be renewed yearly.
(=become a member again for another period of time)· Please renew your membership by January 15.
(=optimism that you start to feel again, after you stopped feeling it)· The new leadership has brought renewed optimism.
· I'd forgotten to renew my passport.
(=buy it again, especially regularly)· The policy must be renewed every year.
· The move has prompted renewed speculation that an election will be held in April.
(=pay again so you can keep getting something)· It’s time to renew your subscription.
He began working with renewed vigour. (=allow a visa to apply to a longer time)· He hoped that his visa might be extended.
(=have a second wedding ceremony to repeat your promises)· Fifty couples celebrated their golden weddings and renewed their vows at a cathedral service in Chicago.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· There will be a buffet reception afterwards - a chance to renew acquaintance with old friends.· Instead he renewed his acquaintance with Kate Molland.· Perhaps we shall renew our acquaintance in Barcelona tonight, where Real Madrid have their first major test under his management.· The man from Louisiana felt it was time to renew the acquaintance.· Johnnie Warburton renewed his acquaintance with Jack when they were designated to work alternate shifts.· It was so nice for me to renew acquaintance once again with my old and trusted friends, Ingleborough and Company.· I didn't think you were down there renewing an old acquaintance.· The events are a good reason for the enthusiasts of this largely non-social past time to gather and renew acquaintances.
· Voice over Police are renewing their appeal for help from the public.· Police have renewed their appeal to the public to join the fight against horse attacks by reporting anything suspicious.· Downing can renew his appeal if the prosecution takes a favourable view.· Aung San renewed his appeal to Nu to come in.· Yesterday Chief Insp Harvey Harris, who is leading the inquiry, renewed his appeals for help.
· In the debate referred to, the senior judges renewed their attack.· D took a gun and, fearing that this stronger man would renew his attack, shot and killed him.· Burnside wanted to renew the attack in the morning.· Never one to give in, he rubbed the sleepy dust from his eyes and renewed his attack.· But media lawyers said there are other possible avenues for mounting a renewed First Amendment attack on the ban.· He thought it likely that the Confederates would retreat before he could renew his attack the next day.
· This week President Mitterrand renewed the call for an early conference.· It could renew calls for Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel to investigate alleged campaign wrongdoing.· Unsanctioned rallies on Feb. 15-18 to renew calls for economic reform and leaders' resignations attracted up to 15,000 people.· Speaking to reporters outside his apartment Thursday, Lebed renewed his call for Yeltsin to resign.
· There is growing evidence that white supremacist groups are renewing hate campaigns against Aborigines in some provincial towns.· The move may signal a renewed campaign against rebels, who have resumed attacks.· Yesterday, the parents renewed their campaign to save the school when they protested outside Strathclyde's headquarters in Glasgow.
· Brandon's renewed commitment to playing a complete game has been vital.· There, the president would announce their renewed commitment to peace and send them on their way back to the region.
· The disclosure of Labour's latest spoiling tactic highlighted renewed confidence at Millbank in the face of dire Tory poll results.· The knowledge gave him renewed confidence, and now the strange bizarre names came to him more easily.
· Employment agency TimePlan, which has run the pilot for the past year, is not having its contract renewed.· Then her contract had not been renewed.· When Keyishian refused to sign a certificate stating he was not a Communist, his contract was not renewed.· Since late 1989, when Steinlager's three-year contract was not renewed, U.S. rugby has been without a principal sponsor.· A growing number of workers are put on short-term contracts which are renewed only if their work is up to scratch.· All the companies had their contracts renewed.· Just over two months before the expiry of that term the plaintiff was informed that her contract would not be renewed.
· The decision not to renew the contract with the landlords Hill Samuel was taken in the light of rising costs and declining sales.
· She tossed it aside and renewed her efforts to contact Georgie and perhaps learn more about the murder.· A renewed effort to raise the minimum wage, for instance, may come from Sen.· The Commission later renewed its efforts and issued a revised proposal in 1989.· The four-star officer believed his renewed efforts on character development were working well, according to Navy sources.· The athletic director renewed his efforts to force the university to remove the sculpture.· Such increases could renew corporate efforts to cut medical costs by passing them on to employees, thus further arousing consumer anxiety.· From this base, after suitable preparations, McClellan planned to renew his efforts against the Confederate capital.
· It also renewed her interrupted friendship with Alix.
· Peter renewed his interest in art two years when his son studied the subject at college.· Since the end of 1984, there has been a renewed interest in Historicals, and interest remains high.· It is these images which have gained Rothenberg renewed critical interest.· Investors have also shown renewed interest in long-term muni bond mutual funds.· The mainstream charities hope that will translate into renewed interest in their work.· His renewed interest sparked a Christmas morning argument.· It spawned renewed interest in running.· Many teams, including the Cardinals, are showing renewed interest in Stevens, a cornerback from Applachian State.
· He wanted a guarantee that he could renew the lease on expiry.· A typical instance where a solicitor is needed is renewing the lease at the end of the tenancy.· The landlord had not renewed Elgaen's lease, and he couldn't find a favorable north-end location in time.
· Please, once again, remind all your present members to renew membership and try to enrol as many new members as possible.
· The draftsman should take care in dealing with the option to renew itself.· After that, the Pentagon has the option to renew it annually over the next eight years.· But I believe it is better to call a halt now at a point when the option to renew contracts has arisen.· In such circumstances, however, it is unlikely that the landlord would be prepared to grant an option to renew.
· However a project worker saw her condition and paid the amount needed to renew her subscription.· Lifelong readers who kept the back issues piled in their attics renewed their subscriptions like clockwork at the five-year rate.· If you are wondering whether to renew your subscription, perhaps you would like to read page 19 before deciding?· Churn refers to the number of people who do not renew subscriptions.
· It was thus necessary to reanimate local antislavery societies, renew the propaganda war, and once more undertake large-scale petitioning.
· Vincent said that a few years ago watch batteries had to be renewed every year.· To remain effective, sealers must be renewed, usually every year or two.· The power to offer such an opportunity requires to be renewed from year to year.· The conditions for renewed economic growth this year have improved, said Economics Minister Guenter Rexrodt today.· This lease was renewed for 300 years, until the final disafforestment and enclosure of those forests.· They renew their vows each year.· These reached a peak during the truce of 1444-49, but were halved when war was renewed in the latter year.· Draw up a School Development Plan and renew it every year.
VERB· He has played in Sicily for the past few years and has decided to renew his contract.· The Legislature will review the boot camp approach in October and decide whether to renew, expand or discontinue it.· I've decided not to renew my contract.· This agreement will expire in March 1987, and it has been decided not to renew it.
· There is no other way to settle this dispute that will not lead to renewed fighting in the future.· The breakdown led to renewed Orthodox demands for legislation against the non-Orthodox streams.· Yesterday Chief Insp Harvey Harris, who is leading the inquiry, renewed his appeals for help.
· Judging by our previous experience, I do not think that the Home Secretary would have refused to renew it thereafter.· He refused only to renew his own homage or to recognize or consecrate bishops whom the king had invested.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
- Library books can be renewed by telephone.
WORD FAMILYadjectivenewrenewablerenewednewsynounnewsrenewalverbrenewadverbnewly
1to arrange for an agreement or official document to continue for a further period of timerenew somebody’s contract/licence/membership etc I need to renew my passport this year.2 formal to begin doing something again after a period of not doing it SYN resume: Local people have renewed their efforts to save the school. Police renewed their appeal for witnesses.renew a friendship/acquaintance etc (=become friendly with someone again)3to remove something that is old or broken and put a new one in its place SYN replace: The window frames need to be renewed.4renew a book to arrange to borrow a library book for a further period of time