'Reexamination' definitions:
Definition of 'reexamination'
(from WordNet)
noun
(law) questioning of a witness by the party that called the witness after that witness has been subject to cross- examination [syn: redirect examination, reexamination]
noun
Definition of 'Reexamination'
From: GCIDE
- Reexamination \Re`ex*am`i*na"tion\ (-?*n?"sh?n), n. A repeated examination. See under Examination. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Reexamination'
From: GCIDE
- Examination \Ex*am`i*na"tion\, n. [L. examinatio: cf. F. examination.]
- 1. The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry. [1913 Webster]
- He neglected the studies, . . . stood low at the examinations. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Examination in chief, or Direct examination (Law), that examination which is made of a witness by a party calling him.
- Cross-examination, that made by the opposite party.
- {Re["e]xamination}, or Re-direct examination, (Law) that questioning of a witness at trial made by the party calling the witness, after, and upon matters arising out of, the cross-examination; also called informally re-direct.
- Syn: Search; inquiry; investigation; research; scrutiny; inquisition; inspection; exploration. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'reexamination'
From: GCIDE
- follow-up \follow-up\ n.
- 1. a second (or subsequent) action to increase the effectiveness of an initial action. Also used attributively; as a follow-up visit.
- Note: A follow-up may be of various types. After a medical examination, a second examination (or reexamination) to obtain additional information regarding some fact discovered in the first examination is considered a follow-up. A second visit or phone call in pursuit of a sale or other request would also be a follow-up.
- Syn: reexamination, review. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
- 2. (Journalism) A subsequent story providing information discovered or events happening after a first story was published. [PJC]
- 3. (Journalism) Same as sidebar. [PJC]