0 past simple and past participle of reopen
1 If a place or business, etc. reopens or is reopened, it begins to operate, or it becomes open for people to use, after being closed for a period of time:
The museum has reopened after nearly two years of reconstruction.
He hung a sign on the door of the shop which said it would reopen at 11.00.
to reopen an enquiry/investigation
to reopen a debate/discussion
Each time they were reopened, new human remains were placed inside.
When the markets are reopened, it is likely that speculation will resume vigorously.
As a result, a space for the re-emergence of the subject is reopened.
When plantations and fenced areas are reopened, though, all too often household use-pressure results in renewed degradation.
It has been reopened with the advance of research in human genetics and the resulting perspectives of future intervention into the human genome.
With this in view, the question of the origin of the non-psalmic offertories can now be reopened.
In the last session, as we can see in the following examples, he reopened his dialogue.
In this patient, the fistula had reopened after closure by direct suture alone.
