Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense reconnects, present participle reconnecting, past tense, past participle reconnected
verb
If a company reconnects your electricity, water, gas, or phone after it has been stopped, they provide you with it once again.
They charge a £66.10 fee for reconnecting cut-off customers. [VERB noun]
Local electricity companies say some homes won't be reconnected until the end ofthe week. [VERB noun]
reconnection (riːkənekʃən)uncountable noun
The cost of reconnection after supplies are cut off is high.
reconnect in British English
(ˌriːkəˈnɛkt)
verb
to link or be linked together again
Derived forms
reconnection (ˌreconˈnection)
noun
Examples of 'reconnect' in a sentence
reconnect
It may be awkward, but don't waste a chance to reconnect with the people you miss.
The Sun (2016)
People need to reconnect with real food.
The Sun (2016)
Luck is hottest when you reconnect with a friend from the past.
The Sun (2011)
One of the things people need in this day and age is to reconnect with nature.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
How we reconnect with these voters is a key challenge for the leadership contenders.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
His calm, crafted buildings refresh us and reconnect us with nature.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The internet is the perfect tool for a refugee diaspora, a scattered people longing to reconnect with their own kind.
James Fergusson KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds (2004)
The garden is increasingly seen as somewhere to escape to, to reconnect with nature and forget about the pressures of life.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
People reconnect, especially if it's your father.
The Sun (2010)
It's time to reconnect with friends you miss, then find success as a team.
The Sun (2012)
We instead identified sport as a great power for good and how the Olympic rings could be a driver to help to reconnect young people with sport.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Instead, it appears the scheme intended to reconnect vulnerable people with support services in their own country has been exploited as a carousel for career beggars.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The National Trust today begins an experiment designed to reconnect people with the realities of farming and the origins of the food they eat.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The model for today's social networking websites took shape in the 1990s with the idea of people wanting to reconnect with old school friends.