recapture: Meaning and Definition of

re•cap•ture

1. to capture again; recover by capture; retake.
2. (of a government) to take by recapture.
3. to recollect or reexperience (something past).

1. the recovery or retaking by capture.
2. the taking by the government of a fixed part of all earnings in excess of a certain percentage of property value, as in the case of a railroad.
3. the lawful reacquisition of a former possession.
4. the state or fact of being recaptured.