re-engineer

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1. transitiveTo modify the design of an existing system, organization, process or product in order to make it more effective, efficient or responsive.

   The first to be converted is 319010, which was re-engineered internally by Gemini Rail Services at Wolverton Works and is now at Brush Traction, Loughborough, being fitted with diesel gensets.

   2020 December 8, Richard Clinnick, “'319' conversion advances Orion freight plans”, in Rail, pages 14–15

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   More specifically I would like to see whether and under what conditions we could re-engineer the utopia of a borderless world, and by extension, a borderless Africa, since, as far as I know, Africa is part of the world. And the world is part of Africa.

   2018 November 11, Achille Mbembe, “The idea of a borderless world”, in Africa Is a Country