repackage

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verb

To package again or differently.

UncommonScrabble 18

Meanings

verbrepackage (third-person singular simple present repackages, present participle repackaging, simple past and past participle repackaged)

present singular third person repackages · participle present repackaging · participle past repackaged · past repackaged

  1. transitiveTo package again or differently.

    And overseeing them all, like a raddled old good-ish fairy, is Bill Nighy, playing a superannuated rocker hoping to get a Christmas number one with his cynically repackaged version of Love Is All Around.

    2003 November 21, Peter Bradshaw, “Love Actually”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2026
    1 more example

    These testosterone thumpers have repackaged and exaggerated the study, with a credulity born of zealotry, into articles with shitposty titles like “Trust The Science: Study Links Left-Wing Politics to Lower Testosterone,” casting it as hard proof of their hormonal theories of healthy politics.

    2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2024

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishpackage
  7. Englishrepackage

From re- + package.

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Translations

Bulgarian преопаковам
  • преопаковам (preopakovam)to package again
Finnish uudelleenpakata, pakata uudelleen
  • uudelleenpakatato package again
  • pakata uudelleento package again
Indonesian kemas ulang
  • kemas ulangto package again
Cite this entry
APA

repackage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repackage

MLA

“repackage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repackage. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “repackage,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repackage.

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