re-defect
verb [ I or T ] uk/ˌriː.dɪˈfekt/ us/ˌriː.dɪˈfekt/
再次叛逃;再次叛变
to leave a country, political party, etc. for a second, third, etc. time, especially in order to join an opposing one
He re-defected to his homeland in 2019. 他于2019年再次叛逃，回到祖国。
She defected from the party in 2008 to join the Democrats, but is viewed with distrust as someone who could re-defect.
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- He will always be considered a traitor and therefore under surveillance in case he tries to re-defect, so he cannot leave his country.
- Conservative voters who had voted for the Labour Party more than a decade ago now re-defected back to the Tories.
- He had defected to the Soviet Union as a young man and then re-defected to the United States.