Reconducting

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Leading or guiding someone or something along a route again; transferring or returning control or responsibility to a previous holder; repeating the process of directing or channeling something
2. Directing or escorting back along the same path; handing over authority or management back to an original party; performing the action of sending or carrying again
3. Serving to guide once more through a course; reinstating previous authority or stewardship; carrying out the act of conducting anew or repeatedly

Etymology: "Reconduct" is simply "re-" attached to "conduct," so the story is mostly the story of the root. "Conduct" comes from Latin "conducere," meaning to bring together or lead along, built from "com-" (together) and "ducere" (to lead). The sense of guiding someone from one place to another is still visible in the everyday use of "conduct," as in a guide who conducts a tour. Adding "re-" gives the sense of leading again, or leading back to where someone came from. That is why "reconducting" tends to describe returning a person or thing to an earlier place or condition, as when a prisoner is escorted back to a cell.

Synonyms: conducting again, retransmitting