reinstatement

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

reinstatement
    n 1: the condition of being reinstated; "her reinstatement to
         her former office followed quickly"
    2: the act of restoring someone to a previous position; "we
       insisted on the reinstatement of the colonel"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Reinstatement \Re`in*state"ment\ (-ment), n.
   The act of reinstating; the state of being reinstated;
   re?stablishment.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

54 Moby Thesaurus words for "reinstatement":
      about-face, backing, backsliding, clearance, clearing,
      destigmatization, destigmatizing, disenchantment, exculpation,
      explanation, flip-flop, improvement, instauration, justification,
      lapse, purgation, purging, rationalization, reactivation,
      recidivation, recidivism, reclamation, reconstitution,
      reconversion, redintegration, reenactment, reestablishment,
      reformation, regress, regression, rehabilitation, reinstation,
      reinstitution, reinvestiture, reinvestment, relapse, replacement,
      restitution, restoration, retrocession, retrogradation,
      retrogression, retroversion, return, returning, reversal, reverse,
      reversion, reverting, revulsion, slipping back, turn, turnabout,
      vindication