recharter

verb

re·​char·​ter (ˌ)rē-ˈchär-tər How to pronounce recharter (audio)
rechartered; rechartering; recharters

transitive verb

: to grant a new charter to
Facing re-election in July 1832, President Jackson vetoed a bill to recharter the Bank of the United States.Laura Ellyn Smith

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But their grip on the banking system soon succumbed to populist challenges, culminating in the failure, in 1832, of the attempt to recharter the federal government’s nationwide Bank of the United States. Charles W. Calomiris, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013 Andrew Jackson explained his veto of Congress’s bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States as being based on its unconstitutionality, even though the Supreme Court had approved Congress’s authority to so act years earlier. Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1776, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of recharter was in 1776

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“Recharter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recharter. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.

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