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On 10 December 2009 the alphabetical range refund-reputeless was added to the New Edition: every word in this range has been thoroughly revised and updated. Below are listed all the new words in the range. We have also added a further list of new words from across the alphabet. The OED's chief editor, John Simpson, provides some observations on the revision of this section of the alphabet, and Michael Proffitt comments on some of the most interesting new words in the batch.

refundable, adj.
refunded, adj.²
reg, n.⁴
regarrison, v.
regd., adj.
regender, v.²
reggaeton, n.
reggiano, n.
regift, n.
regift, v.
regioselective, adj.
registration mark, n.
registry book, n.
Regius, adj.
reglow, v.
rego, n.
regt, n.
regular expression, n.
regule, n.
regurgitative, adj.
rehabbed, adj.
rehabbing, n.
rehabilitating, adj.
rehair, v.
rehairing, n.
rehang, n.
rehaul, n.
rehaul, v.
reheel, v.
Rehobother Bastard, n.
rehome, v.
rehybridize, v.
rehydrating, n.
rehydrating, adj.
Reichschancellor, n.
Reichsführer, n.
Reichskanzler, n.
Reichsminister, n.
re-imaging, n.
reimbue, v.
reimpregnation, n.
reinduct, v.
reingest, v.
reinject, v.
reinjection, n.
reinstallation, n.
reintern, v.
reinternment, n.
reinterview, n.
reinterview, v.
reinvesting, n.
reinvigorating, n.
reinvigorating, adj.
reionization, n.
reionize, v.
reishi, n.
rejumble, n.
rekene, adv.
rekey, v.
relading, n.
relamp, v.
relasch, v.
relatedly, adv.
relating, n.
relationing, adj.
relayer, n.¹
relayer, n.²
relayer, n.³
re-lease, v.²
relegitimize, v.
relevy, v.²
reliabilism, n.
reliabilist, adj. and n.
relighting, adj.
religioso, n.¹
reline, n.
relitigate, v.
relitigation, n.
reloan, n.
reloan, v.
relocating, n.
relocating, adj.
relocator, n.
re-look, n.
remail, v.
remailer, n.
remailing, n.
remanding, n.
remanding, adj.
remanent, n.²
remap, v.
re-mark, n.³
remediating, adj.
remediator, n.
remedious, adj.
remembery, n.
remending, n.
remerge, v.¹
REMF, n.
remigium, n.
remigrant, n.
rem in re, n.
remix, n.
remixer, n.
remolten, adj.
remote control, n.
remote controller, n.
remotivation, n.
remuster, n.
remyelination, n.
renaming, n.
renegotiable, adj.
renewalism, n.
renewalist, n. and adj.
rengarenga, n.
reniculus, n.
reno, n.
renovating, n.
rent, n.³
renumerative, adj.
renunciate, n.
renunciator, n.
renvers, n.
reocclusion, n.
reopener, n.
reoperation, n.
reorg, v.
rep, n.²
rep, adj.¹ (and n.⁷)
repackage, n.
repaginate, v.
repagination, n.
reparate, v.
reparating, n.
reparent, v.
reparenting, n.
repaying, n.
rep by pop, n.
repeater, v.
reperformance, n.
re-petition, v.
re-petitioner, n.¹
replait, v.²
replant, n.
repleading, n.
repledge, n.²
replenishing, adj.
replesh, v.
replot, n.
repmobile, n.
repointing, n.
reporting, adj.
reposado, n.
reposing, n.¹
repositionable, adj.
repossessor, n.
repost, v.³
reposting, n.¹
repressure, n.¹
repressure, v.
reprice, v.
reprioritize, v.
reprioritizing, n.
reprobating, n.
reprobe, v.
reproducing, n.
reproof, v.
republicanizing, adj.
republicism, n.
republishing, n.
repulp, v.
repumping, n.
repunit, n.
repurification, n.

In addition to these new entries, a number of new subordinate entries were added to existing entries. These included:

(Under refurnish, v.)
- refurnishing
(Under refusal, n.)
- refusal letter
- refusal rate
(Under refuse, n.¹ and adj.)
- refuse removal
- refuse truck
(Under regal, n.¹ and adj.)
- regal fritillary
(Under regale, v.)
- regaling
(Under regarrison, v.)
- regarrisoning
(Under regency, n. and adj.)
- Regency buck
(Under regenerative, adj. and n.)
- regenerative medicine
(Under regener, v.)
- regenered
(Under regent, n.)
- regent bowerbird
- regent parrot
(Under reghel, n.)
- reghel-stick
(Under regift, v.)
- regifter
- regifting
(Under regimental, adj. and n.)
- regimental colour
(Under regioselective, adj.)
- regioselectivity
(Under registered, adj. and n.)
- registered debt
(Under registration, n.)
- registration card
- registration paper
- registration desk
- registration document
- registration form
- registration office
- registration period
(Under registry, n.)
- registry key
(Under regression, n.)
- regression hypnosis
- regression therapy
- regression model
(Under regular, adj., n., and adv.)
- regular foot
- Regular Baptist
- regular session
(Under regularize, v.)
- regularizing
(Under regulator, n.)
- Regulator movement
- regulator protein
(Under regulatory, adj.)
- regulatory protein
- gene regulatory protein
(Under regulus, n.)
- regulus metal
(Under rehab, n.)
- rehab farm
(Under rehabilitation, n.)
- rehabilitation order
- rehabilitation unit
- rehabilitation course
- rehabilitation facility
- rehabilitation hospital
- rehabilitation plan
- rehabilitation project
- rehabilitation service
(Under rehash, v.)
- rehashing
(Under rehearsal, n.)
- rehearsal party
- rehearsal period
- rehearsal schedule
- rehearsal space
- rehearsal studio
(Under reheel, v.)
- reheeling
(Under Reichstag, n.)
- Reichstag building
(Under reify, v.)
- reifier
(Under reigh, adj.)
- reighness
(Under reimplant, v.)
- reimplanted
(Under rein, n.¹)
- rein orchid
(Under reincorporate, v.)
- reincorporated
(Under reindeer, n.)
- reindeer warble fly
(Under reinterpret, v.)
- reinterpreter
(Under reinvent, v.)
- reinvented
- reinventing
(Under reinvest, v.)
- reinvested
(Under reissue, v.)
- reissuing
- reissued
(Under rejection, n.)
- rejection letter
(Under rejigger, v.)
- rejiggered
(Under relabel, v.)
- relabelling
(Under relamp, v.)
- relamping
(Under relapse, n.²)
- relapse rate
- relapse prevention
(Under relational, adj. and n.)
- relational grammar
- relational grammarian
- relational operator
- relational word
(Under relationship, n.)
- relationship banker
- relationship banking
- relationship manager
- relationship management
- relationship marketing
- relationship selling
- relationship therapy
(Under relative, n., adj., and adv.)
- relative aperture
- relative atomic mass
- relative error
- relative molecular mass
- relative proper motion
(Under relatively, adv.)
- relatively prime
(Under relativity, n.)
- relativity theory
(Under relaunch, v.)
- relaunched
- relaunching
(Under relaxate, v.)
- relaxating
(Under relaxation, n.)
- relaxation tape
- relaxation technique
- relaxation therapy
- relaxation exercise
(Under release, n.)
- release form
- release paper
- release version
- release mechanism
- release schedule
(Under relegate, v.)
- relegating
(Under relegitimize, v.)
- relegitimized
(Under reliability, n.)
- reliability engineering
- reliability analysis
- reliability estimate
- reliability score
- reliability standard
- reliability study
(Under relic, adj.)
- relic form
(Under relic, n.)
- relic case
(Under relief, n.²)
- relief camp
- relief train
- relief aid
- relief coordinator
- relief doctor
- relief effort
- relief measure
- relief mission
- relief nurse
- relief operation
- relief package
- relief programme
- relief teacher
(Under relieving, adj.)
- relieving teacher
(Under religion, n.)
- religion of nature
- religion class
- religion school
- religion teacher
(Under religious, adj. and n.)
- religious house
- religious humanism
- religious humanist
- religious knowledge
- religious police
- religious right
- religious society
- Religious Society of Friends
- religious studies
- religious-mindedness
(Under relocate, v.)
- relocated
(Under relocation, n.)
- relocation plan
- relocation service
(Under reluctance, n.)
- reluctance motor
(Under relying, adj.)
- relying party
(Under remand, n.)
- remand prison
(Under remanufacture, v.)
- remanufactured
- remanufacturing
(Under remarkable, adj., n., and adv.)
- remarkable-looking
(Under remaster, v.)
- remastered
(Under remembrance, n.)
- book of remembrance
- day of remembrance
- remembrance book
- remembrance ceremony
(Under remineralize, v.)
- remineralizing
(Under remix, v.)
- remixed
(Under remote, adj., n., and adv.)
- remote locking
- remote sensor
- remote viewer
- remote viewing
(Under removal, n.)
- removal order
(Under Renaissance, n.)
- Renaissance Revival
- Renaissance woman
(Under renal, adj. and n.)
- renal corpuscle
- renal tubule
(Under render, n.¹)
- render farm
(Under rendering, n.)
- rendering coat
(Under renegotiate, v.)
- renegotiating
(Under rental, n.)
- rental income
(Under rent, n.¹)
- rent-seeker
- rent-seeking
- rent stabilization
- rent-stabilized
- rent barley
- rent payer
- rent money
- rent payment
(Under renumber, v.)
- renumbered
(Under reoffending, n.)
- reoffending rate
(Under reorganize, v.)
- reorganizing
(Under repair, n.²)
- repairperson
(Under repartition, v.)
- repartitioning
(Under repeat, n.)
- repeat flowering
- repeat prescription
- repeat rate
(Under repentance, n.)
- place of repentance
- public place of repentence
(Under repetitive, adj. and n.)
- repetitive DNA
- repetitive motion injury
(Under repique, v.)
- repiquing
(Under replacement, n.)
- replacement cycle
- replacement fertility
- replacement level
- replacement period
- replacement rate
- replacement ratio
- replacement theory
(Under replant, n.)
- replant disease
(Under replant, v.)
- replanted
(Under replication, n.)
- replication origin
(Under reply, n.)
- reply coupon
- international reply coupon
(Under report, n.)
- report book
- report form
- report-writer
- report-writing
(Under report, v.)
- report-back
(Under reported, adj.)
- reported speech
(Under reporter, n.)
- reporter gene
(Under reporting, n.)
- reporting verb
(Under representation, n.¹)
- representation by population
- representation theory
- group representation theory
(Under repress, v.¹)
- repressment
(Under repression, n.)
- repressionary
(Under reprioritize, v.)
- reprioritization
- reprioritized
(Under reprobation, n.)
- reprobationary
(Under reproduction, n.)
- reproduction ratio
(Under reproductive, adj.)
- reproductive rights
- reproductive technology
- assisted reproductive technology
(Under reprogramme | reprogram, v.)
- reprogrammed
(Under reproof, v.)
- reproofing
(Under reptile, n.¹)
- reptile brain
(Under reptilian, adj. and n.)
- reptilian brain
(Under republican, adj. and n.)
- Republican Guard
- Republican Pawnee
- republican bird
(Under republic, n.)
- Republic Day
(Under repulp, v.)
- repulping

Out-of-sequence new entries

10 December 2009 also saw the publication of the the following new entries from across the alphabet:

3G, n.
accommodationist, n. and adj.
accommodatory, adj.
accompanied, adj.
adultescent, n.
advergence, n.
affordability, n.
a-life, n.
Alzheimer, n.
antihypertensive, adj. and n.
apartotel, n.
autotransfuse, v.
backstabbing, n.
backstabbing, adj.
Baster, n.³
Beatlesque, adj.
birdwing, n.
blogosphere, n.
Bridezilla, n.
bum rap, n.
bum-rap, v.
can-do, adj.
censorware, n.
click-through, adj. and n.
cogon, n.
conspiratorialism, n.
conspiratorialist, n. and adj.
coonass, n. and adj.
cyclooxygenase, n.
Ferber, n.
Ferberize, v.
flatline, n. and adj.
flatline, v.
flatlined, adj.
flatliner, n.
glocal, adj.
glocalization, n.
glocalize, v.
Kemp, n.⁶
Kriek, n.
Linux, n.
lipectomy, n.
panga, n.³
senza replica, adv. (and n.)
SMS, v.
taxflation, n.
transdermal, adj.
Zamak, n.
-zilla, comb. form

In addition to these new entries, the following out-of-sequence subordinate entries were added:

(Under accommodation, n.)
- accommodational
(Under advance, n.)
- advance directive
(Under adversarial, adj.)
- adversarial system
(Under adversary, n. and adj.)
- adversary culture
- adversary system
(Under aesthetic, adj. and n.)
- aesthetic distance
(Under African, n. and adj.)
- African National Congress
(Under after-, prefix)
- after-meeting
- aftershow
- after-tax
(Under bracket, n.)
- bracket creep
(Under caffeine, n.)
- caffeine-free
(Under cannon, n.¹)
- cannon-fodder
(Under cardboard, n.)
- cardboard city
(Under career, n.)
- career break
(Under Celtic, adj. and n.)
- Celtic Tiger
(Under change, n.)
- change management
(Under cholesterol, n.)
- cholesterol-conscious
- cholesterol count
- cholesterol-free
- cholesterol-laden
- cholesterol level
(Under consolidation, n.)
- consolidation loan
(Under conventional, adj. and n.)
- conventional wisdom
(Under direct, adj. and adv.)
- direct product
- direct proportion
- direct ratio
- direct sum
(Under extraordinary, adj., adv., and n.)
- extraordinary session
(Under F, n.)
- f-number
(Under fist, n.¹)
- fist pound
- fist bump
- fist pump
- fist-pump
(Under force, n.¹)
- force protection
(Under genius, n.)
- genius grant
(Under special, adj., adv., and n.)
- special relativistic
(Under sudden, adj., adv., and n.)
- sudden infant death syndrome

Finally, new meanings were added to the following entries:

absorb, v.
abstracting, n.
accidental, adj. and n.
accommodate, v.
accreditation, n.
accrediting, n.
accrediting, adj.
across, adv., prep., and adj.
aeon | eon, n.
agnostic, n. and adj.
agony, n.
agree, v.
backside, n.
bag, n.
bag, v.¹
blow-out, n.
bright, adj. and n.
cack, n. and adj.
calm, n.¹
cane, v.¹
caned, adj.
caning, n.
carnage, n.
chopper, n.¹
circulation, n.
click, v.¹
controlled, adj.
crease, v.²
drink, n.
gavel, n.⁴
schedule, n.
speed, n.

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