reviewal

[ ri-vyoo-uhl ]

noun

1. the act of reviewing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of reviewal¹

First recorded in 1640–50; review + -al ²

Example Sentences

It’s been more than a year since Apple first announced significant changes to the way its App Store operates, changes that incentivized app makers to offer subscription services, introduced search adds to the App Store, and also sped up app reviewal processes.

From The Verge

If a defendant is unable to post bond within 48 hours, he or she is entitled to a bond reviewal hearing before the judge.

From Washington Times

While the Justice Department is bound to a fairly strict interpretation of the law in its antitrust reviewal process, the FCC can look at deals with a more subjective eye.

From Washington Post

In this reviewal we find, among other things, a learned and ingenious dissertation on the various species of lyric poetry—the lay, the romance, the ballad, and the occasional poem; on the nature, object, and limits of each—their points of resemblance, and points of difference, together with observations on the fitness of certain metres for certain kinds of poetry.

From Project Gutenberg

This reviewal, which from its length may fairly be called a treatise, contains a clear, succinct, and masterly exposition of those views on the early history of mankind, which he has on some points more fully developed in the work, of which a translation is now given.

From Project Gutenberg

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