reprise

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: re=prise

CIDE DICTIONARY

reprise, n. [F. reprise, fr. reprendre, repris, to take back, L. reprehendere. See Reprehend.].

•  A taking by way of retaliation.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
•  Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like.  Burrill.  [1913 Webster]
•  A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.  [1913 Webster]

reprise, v. t. [Written also reprize.].

•  To take again; to retake.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
•  To recompense; to pay.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

reprise, n.
1 a repeated passage in music.
2 a repeated item in a musical programme.

Etymology

F, fem. past part. of reprendre (see REPRIEVE)

ROGET THESAURUS

reprise

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.