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resubmit

To send the same form, file, request, or other item again for processing after it has already been sent once.

In plain English

This means making another submission of something that was already sent before. It is the same form, file, request, or other item, sent again so it can be processed another time.

In context

Here, it tells the user to send the same form or request again for processing.

Situation
Reading processing, queue, validation, success, warning, and error messages
What it communicates
tells the user to send the form or request again

Meaning limits

The term itself does not say why the item is being sent again or what result will follow.

Examples

“She resubmitted the same request after sending it the day before.”

Core meaning

“The clerk asked him to resubmit the form.”

In context

  • submit Broader Term

    Resubmitting is a later case of submitting the same item.

  • revise Contrast

    Revising changes the item; resubmitting means sending it again.