Definition of REINSTATE • Law Dictionary • TheLaw.com

To restore to a prior status or position that was held before. For example, to reinstate someone suspended from duty back into their former position. To place again in a former state, condition, or office; to restore to a state or position from which the object or person had been removed See Collins v. U. S., 15 Ct CI. 22.

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