Definition of reinstate for English Language Learners : to put (someone) back in a job or position that had been taken away : to begin using or dealing with (a law, policy, system, etc.) again
Detailed Synonyms for period of time in English. period of time: period of time [the ~] noun. the period of time the term; the period of time; the period; the space of time; the time; the space term [the ~] noun.
Meaning: The time of the physical formation and development of the earth (especially prior to human history) Classified under: Nouns denoting time and temporal relations. Synonyms: geologic time; geological time. Hypernyms (geological time is a kind of...): time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of geological time): aeon; eon (the longest division of geological time) geological period; period (a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed) era; geological era (a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods) epoch (a unit of geological time)