re·lease (r -l s )tr.v. re·leased, re·leas·ing, re·leas·es 1. To set free from confinement, restraint, or bondage: released the prisoners. 2. To free from something that binds, fastens, or holds back; let go: released the balloons; released a flood of questions. 3. To dismiss, as from a job. 4. To relieve of debt or obligation. 5. To relieve of care and suffering. 6. a. To issue for performance, sale, publication, or distribution. b. To make known or available. 7. To relinquish (a right or claim). n. 1. A deliverance or liberation, as from confinement, restraint, or suffering. 2. An authoritative discharge, as from an obligation or from prison. 3. An unfastening or letting go of something caught or held fast. 4. A device or catch for locking or releasing a mechanism. 5. a. The act or an instance of issuing something for publication, use, or distribution. b. Something thus released: a new release of a software program. c. The condition of being available, in use, or in publication: a movie in wide release. 6. Law a. Relinquishment to another of a right, title, or claim. b. The document authorizing such relinquishment. 7. Linguistics The movement of a vocal organ or organs so as to end the closure of a stop consonant. [Middle English relesen, from Old French relaissier, alteration of relacher, from Latin relax  re; see relax.] |
In air defense, weapons and crews which have been released from commitments and states of readiness. When so released, they are given a time at which a state of readiness will be resumed.
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