REUSE

recycle, reprocess, reuse

(verb) use again after processing; “We must recycle the cardboard boxes”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

reuse (countable and uncountable, plural reuses)

The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to yield something usable.

The act of using again, or in another place.

Verb

reuse (third-person singular simple present reuses, present participle reusing, simple past and past participle reused)

To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else).

To use again, or in another place.

Anagrams

• resue, serue

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

22 September 2024

SPRINGBOARD

(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”


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