resit

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — sit sits at #149neutral

A resit is taking an exam again after failing it. Book a resit, a resit in August, pass on the resit.

It usually costs money and sometimes caps the grade you can get. The British say resit where Americans would say retake.

Definitions of resit

1nounresitTaking an exam again after failing it.B2
“She passed the resit and started the course a term late.”

resit is an exam.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*sed-
Middle English
sitten
English
sit
English, today
resit

From re- + sit. sit comes from Middle English sitten. From Middle English sitten, from Old English sittan, from Proto-West Germanic sittjan, from Proto-Germanic sitjaną, from Proto-Indo-European sed- (“sit”). 2

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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