reseated; reseating; reseats
: 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
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
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
Alex CranzExamples of reseat in a Sentence
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If the use of such electronic devices, such as keyboards, are distracting, persons using keyboards may be reseated and/or such use may be prohibited by the court.
—Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
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
Within hours of lawmakers vacating Tennessee State University's board, Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday signed the legislation into law and issued his appointments to reseat a new board.
—Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 28 Mar. 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
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Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
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
Within hours of lawmakers vacating Tennessee State University's board, Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday signed the legislation into law and issued his appointments to reseat a new board.
—Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 28 Mar. 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
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“Reseat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reseat. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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