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Reployment 

1. The act of re-employing someone (who was previously laid off) as a temp worker, usually at a lower wage scale.

2. What happens to many people who have lost their permanent jobs following the crash of 2008.

3. Another sign of the harsh economic times in which we live.
Acme Industries is having a Reployment Fair at the hotel downtown. They'll re-hire you as a temp at about half of what you were earning last year.
Reployment by Peter Kobs December 7, 2009
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Short for Replicated Android. Reploids are robots built based on Mega Man X's designs by Dr.Cain. (please refer to Zero and Mega Man X) Like X, they have complete free will. However, thanks to the virus and free will itself, we have Mavericks

This is the english spelling of repiliroid
Reploids have choice, they can choose to serve humans or go against them.
reploid by Yin Lung Huang January 9, 2005

replowned 

A combination of owned and reply. When a n00b fails to use the reply button properly and posts a new comment about the same topic as the comment directly above.
*First Post*
Bob:Who sits under the table and texts?

Scott replied: i sit on the table and text


*Second Post*
Matt: id sit under the table and text

VC Charlie replied:i'd find the reply button

Deeeeeees Nuts replied: replowned
replowned by Scott_390 February 24, 2009
re·plode

v. re·plod·ed, re·plod·ing, re·plodes
v. intr.
1) To create an additional explosion by the use of explosive material to ignite, compress, or otherwise detonate a secondary source of explosive material. ex: The squibs within the nuclear device fired with perfect synchronicity, compressing the nuclear material to critical mass and causing a tremendous replosion. ex: The explosion of the car in the parking garage caused rapid and subsequent replosions in an estimated 300 other vehicles.
2) To burst violently as a result of internal pressure exerted by an external, explosive force.
3) A following noise: The vase reploded into tiny pieces when it hit the floor after being hit with a baseball bat.
4) To make an emotional outburst: My replosive husband has a tendency to get mad about the same thing, over and over and over again.
5) To increase suddenly, sharply, and without control, after a long hiatus: The population level in this area, slow in growth since the huge population explosion in 1946, has reploded during the past 12 years.
6) To change state or appearance suddenly after already having done so: After a sudden change to a brilliant yellow, the fire maple reploded over the weekend with a sudden flaring of brilliant red.
Sports. To finally hit a golf ball out of a sand trap with a shot that scatters the sand after one or more initial attempts have failed.

v. tr.
To cause to release energy or burst violently and noisily about a thing or a similar thing that has caused an initial explosion syn: aftershock Example: Scott exploded when he got the threatening letter from the collection agency; he reploded when they began to call is house 7 times a day. Example: The oxy-acetylene regulator reploded after multiple back-shocks from failed ignition attempts reached a replosive level within the regulatory chamber.
To show again to the same idiot a false or unreliable something: replode a coworker's fallacies about market demand hypothesis in meeting, after meeting, after meeting.
Sports. To attempt to hit (a golf ball) out of a sand trap with a replosive shot after missing the first time.


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Latin repldere, to drive out by clapping again : re-, re- + plaudere, to clap again.
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re·ploder n.

Antonym: deplode
Consequent to the tech stock explosions and replosions of the 90s, the entire market experienced severe deplosion in many sectors.
Replode by Scorellis December 5, 2003

Rules Replo 

The word used to describe a person who is such a good-all, teacher's pet, and the really irritating guy who always goes by the rules and tattles on you when you bend it just bit.
Bill is such a Rules Replo, he tattled on me for doing my homework at school.
Rules Replo by zaduz December 7, 2007
re·plond (ri-plond)
v. re·plond·ed, re·plond·ing, re·plonds

v. intr.
To make a reply; answer. See Synonyms at answer, respond, or reply.
To act in return or in answer.

v. tr.
To give as a reply; answer.

(Middle English: replonden, from Old French: replondre, from Latin: replondere: re- + plondere, to promise; see plond: in Indo-European roots.)
It was so ominous that he was lethargic with that obvious look in his eyes, that not a syllable did he replond.

He replonded that no one would go, to which I asked, "wherefore"?

She always replonds to all of her spam messages from Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
replond by Brian & Boris April 14, 2008
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