recaption
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
recaption (countable and uncountable, plural recaptions)
- (law) The lawful claim and recovery, by a person, of goods wrongly taken from him
- 2005, Akhil Reed Amar, America's Constitution: A Biography:
- The ordinance affirmed the common-law right of masters to recapture fugitives on their own, without coming before a magistrate. By contrast, Article IV omitted mention of self-help recaption or reclamation.
Verb edit
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.