REUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reuse mean? 

• REUSE (verb)
  The verb REUSE has 1 sense:

1. use again after processing

  Familiarity information: REUSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REUSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reuse    ... he / she / it reuses   
Past simple: reused   
Past participle: reused   
-ing form: reusing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Use again after processing

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

recycle; reprocess; reuse

Context example:

We must recycle the cardboard boxes

Hypernyms (to "reuse" is one way to...):

apply; employ; use; utilise; utilize (put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reuse"):

rehash (present or use over, with no or few changes)

reclaim; recover (reuse (materials from waste products))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

EXAMPLE(S): initial use of device, reuse, unknown

(Device Reprocessed Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

DARPA said the plane could then be reused “potentially within hours.”

(Hypersonic Space Plane May Soon Be a Reality, VOA)

The company hopes to reduce the cost of future space travel by developing a dependable system of retrieving and reusing launch rockets for future missions.

(SpaceX Completes Successful Rocket Launch, VOA News)

A type of read only memory device that can be written to after manufacture, erased, and reused.

(Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)