reseat

verb

re·​seat ˌrē-ˈsēt 

reseated; reseating; reseats

transitive verb

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

a

: 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

b

: 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

Examples of reseat in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Word History

First Known Use

1606, in the meaning defined above