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re|cap|ture
re|cap|ture «ree KAP chuhr», verb, -tured, -tur|ing, noun.
–v.t.
1. to capture again; have again.
2. Figurative. to recall: »

The picture album recaptured the days of the horse and buggy.

3. (of the government) to take (a company's excess profits).
–n.
1. the act of taking or fact of being taken a second time: »

“Mad Anthony” Wayne…was the hero of the recapture of Stony Point, N.Y., a British post on the Hudson River, in 1779 (John R. Alden).

2. the thing that is taken.
3. U.S. the act of taking a company's excess profits, especially the profits of a public utility, by the government.

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