re-use

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

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Meanings

nounre-use (plural re-uses)

plural re-uses

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of reuse.
verbre-use (third-person singular simple present re-uses, present participle re-using, simple past and past participle re-used)

present singular third person re-uses · participle present re-using · participle past re-used · past re-used

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of reuse.

    The statue was never traced, nor the culprits tracked down. The original moulds were re-used to cast an identical replica, which was installed in 2013 and is thankfully (at the time of writing) still there.

    2020 November 4, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Neyland (November 2010)”, in Rail, page 27
Cite this entry
APA

re-use. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-use

MLA

“re-use.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-use. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “re-use,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-use.

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