Usually means: Repeated sections in music, literature.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word reprises:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. reprises: Merriam-Webster
  2. reprises: Collins English Dictionary
  3. reprises: Vocabulary.com
  4. Reprise's, Reprises, reprises: Wordnik
  5. reprises: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. reprises: Wiktionary
  7. reprises: Dictionary.com
  8. reprises: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. reprises: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Reprises: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reprises: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reprise)

noun:  A recurrence or resumption of an action.
noun:  (music) A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
noun:  (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
noun:  A taking by way of retaliation.
noun:  (law, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
noun:  A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
noun:  (construction) In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again.
verb:  To repeat or resume an action or a role.
verb:  (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.
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