Repress vs Reissue - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between repress and reissue

is that repress is the act of repressing while reissue is something that has issued, or been issued again.

is that repress is to press again while reissue is to issue again.

(es)

The act of repressing.

(es)

To press again.

to repress a vinyl record

To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.

*to repress sedition or rebellion

*to repress the first risings of discontent.

Hence, to check; to keep back.

* Milton

Desire of wine and all delicious drinks, / Thou couldst repress .

* (forcefully preventing an upheaval from developing) to crush out; to quell; to subdue; to suppress * (to keep back) to restrain; to hold back

(reissu)

To issue again.

To reprint a series of postage stamps from old plates.

In patent law: to permit a patent with ministerial errors to be corrected and enforced for the remainder of the original term of the patent.

* reissuer

(en noun)

Something that has issued, or been issued again.

A second or subsequent printing of postage stamps from old plates.