reseat

verb

re·seat ˌrē-ˈsēt

reseated; reseating; reseats

transitive verb

: to seat (someone or something) again: such as

: to cause or help (someone) to be seated again

I stood gazing at him awhile … and then reseated myself at my desk.—

Herman Melville

… the standard company procedure is, whenever one passenger complains about another, to either reseat one of the passengers [=move one of the passengers to a different seat] or investigate further.—

Chris Matyszczyk

: to fit (something, such as a part of a machine) back into or on a seat (see seat entry 1 sense 5b)

The customer reseated the cartridges and the printer started working.—

Alex Cranz

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Flight attendants will usually try to reseat you, but Carr acknowledged that can be difficult when a flight is very full. —

Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024 The malfunction that caused the propellant leak appears to have been with a valve that did not properly reseat during the propulsion system's initialization sequence. —

Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024 What is unusual is to have to do it several times—and reseat the wheel—only to realize that the disc itself is slightly warped. —

Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023 And by the way, don’t overlook Musk’s role in the biggest business story of the week—the efforts to unseat and reseat Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI. —

Alan Murray, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for reseat