rehat

rehat
 v.— «The United States supports the Secretary-General’s recommendation to expand the mandate of UNAMSIL to take on the function of the departing ECOMOG forces and we will vote for the resolution before us today. To ensure there is no gap in security, we support the “rehatting” of two battalions of Nigerian ECOMOG troops remaining in Sierra Leone.» —“ Soderberg Remarks to UNSC on Sierra Leone Peacekeeping Force” by Nancy Soderberg Africa News Feb. 7, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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