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reuse
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As a noun, reuse means the act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to yield something usable. As a verb, it means use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else).
Meanings of reuse
5 meaningsnoun
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.
“Code reuse can save programmers a lot of typing.”
verb
To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else).
“The students reused empty plastic bottles in their science experiment.”
To use again, or in another place.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).