Home › Words › R › recaptionrecaptionrecaption means the lawful claim and recovery, by a person, of goods wrongly taken from him.EtymologyFrom re- + caption.nounThe lawful claim and recovery, by a person, of goods wrongly taken from himverbTo assign a new caption to.e.g.“The newspaper was forced to recaption the photograph to avoid a libel suit.”Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).