Meaning

3 senses
  1. A tire that has had new tread glued on.

    He refused to buy recaps because he didn't trust them not to come apart on the highway.

  2. A recapitulation.

    Before we begin with today's agenda, Alice will give us a recap of recent decisions.

  3. A leveraged recapitalization accomplished by increasing the debt to equity ratio.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Please recap the most important points.

  2. Let me recap what was said.

  3. Make sure you recap what we've just talked about.

  4. Sami gave us a recap of his experience with that company.

  5. As a point of departure, let me recap what we did last week.

Origin

From re- + cap. Clipping of recapitulation. Clipping of recapitalization.

From re- + cap.

Clipping of recapitulation.

Clipping of recapitalization.

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Forms

plural: recaps
Singularrecap
Pluralrecaps

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
recapitulation:summaryA2summarizationsummarisationsumming-up

Word family

1 related words
Derivedprecap

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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