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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
refurbish
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
completely
▪ Two of our laboratories have been completely refurbished recently as part of an ongoing programme of modernisation.
▪ The salons, formerly known as Toni &038; Guy, offer clients a complete hair care service and have been completely refurbished.
▪ The bungalows are in the process of being completely refurbished.
newly
▪ The newly refurbished Midland Hotel has 111 individually designed bedrooms.
▪ All the bedrooms have been newly refurbished and have telephone and double glazing.
▪ Heathrow - the newly refurbished Sheraton, situated 1 mile from Heathrow.
recently
▪ Two of our laboratories have been completely refurbished recently as part of an ongoing programme of modernisation.
▪ The motel was a recently refurbished Holiday Inn.
▪ A thoroughly charming and well-run hotel, it was recently refurbished and is well-furnished throughout.
▪ All the attractive bedrooms have private facilities, and all have been recently refurbished.
▪ The Hotel Graal was recently refurbished and all the bedrooms have a telephone.
▪ The other non-agricultural employment is in the recently refurbished Rockingham Arms.
■ NOUN
building
▪ Its first links with Beaverbrook came through refurbishing the Express building in Fleet Street.
▪ Firemen originally thought that workmen who are refurbishing the building were trapped inside, but everyone was eventually accounted for.
cost
▪ The Northmavine factory of Ronas Fisheries is also to be refurbished, at a cost of £630,000.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A developer wants to refurbish the Green Street Hotel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A thoroughly charming and well-run hotel, it was recently refurbished and is well-furnished throughout.
▪ Nearby, Pre-Owned Electronics offered refurbished, used Macs with six-month warranties.
▪ Old classrooms in the main block were refurbished and brought back into use for Sociology and Philosophy.
▪ Roads, subways, power grids, and dams were constructed; cities were refurbished.
▪ The motel was a recently refurbished Holiday Inn.
▪ The present structure was built in 1843 and has recently been refurbished with a mosaic inspired by local school children..
▪ There is even a school of thought that says some 1960s office blocks outside prime areas should be refurbished as residential accommodation.
▪ They would steal cars, repaint, refurbish, and crack new cylinders for them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Refurbish

Refurbish \Re*fur"bish\ (r?*f?r"b?sh), v. t. To furbish anew.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
refurbish

1610s, from re- "again" + furbish, on model of French refourbir. Related: Refurbished; refurbishing.

Wiktionary
refurbish

vb. To rebuild or replenish with all new material; to restore to original (or better) working order and appearance.

WordNet
refurbish

v. make brighter and prettier; "we refurbished the guest wing"; "My wife wants us to renovate" [syn: renovate, freshen up]

Usage examples of "refurbish".

Confederation Astronautics Board to carry freight and up to twenty passengers, crew toroid refurbished, and crew-members in a tigerish frame of mind.

At the same time he allowed that Mary should owe him thirty percent of the total cost of refurbishing, to be paid off from her future brothel earnings.

The refurbished ship would be the centerpiece of the millenary celebrations Governor Tom Traynor had scheduled to inaugurate the year 2000 in Texas.

Lady Rangle refurbished it continually to be slap up to the echo of fashion.

Turkish army and navy, bribed the descendants of the Janissaries, consulted with pashas and ministers and laid aside trust funds for their grandsons, acquired rights to the wells in Mecca and all wells on all routes leading to Mecca, bought two hundred of the existing two hundred and forty-four industrial enterprises in the Turkish realm, dismissed and reappointed the Armenian and Greek and Latin Greek and Syrian Greek patriarchs in Jerusalem and the Coptic patriarch in Alexandria, leased four thousand kilometers of railway lines, established dowries for the daughters of the principal landowners between the Persian Gulf and the Anatolian highlands, refurbished the gold mosaics and polychrome marbles of Santa Sophia, so that by the time he was ready to leave the city anyone who could ever be in a position of power in that part of the world was under his control.

We refurbished them and gave the renters the option of buying the apartments they were living in.

Cerryl stood on the southernmost of the refurbished piers, where the wind blew out of the west, nearly straight into his face, disarranging his thin brown hair and surrounding him with the metallic odor of river, mud, and the hint of rotten vegetation.

Thursday, 18870811:1700 Peter Williams stood before the refurbishing tank in the eerie place of heaviness.

She and her companion rode on in silence for a while, through clean, almost unpopulated streets, past experimental buildings and plantings, past refurbished houses and new-grown groves.

But all month the store was being refurbished, so during this period Barrett did his shopping at Albers Super Market, which was located on the outskirts of town.

Meanwhile, a second of my balloons is being refurbished and prepared for service.

He refurbishes the Mercedes star, forecasts the rise and fall of Borgward, disposes of Marshall Plan funds, is present when the Ruhr Authority meets, dismisses the Constitution before it is approved by the Parliamentary Council, fixes the date of the currency reform, counts votes before the first Bundestag elections are held, builds the imminent Korean crisis into the shipbuilding program of the Howaldt Works of Kiel and Hamburg, arranges the Petersberg Agreement, picks a certain Dr.

First Peshawar Scouts, based at Fort Hamilton as Gor Khatri was called before it was refurbished, was in the throes of a more than usually bloody struggle with the local Afridi.

In the beginning, they made their homes on some of the less rocky, more southerly islands, refurbishing ancient ruins, farming where decent soil remained, breeding small numbers of stock beasts on the strictly limited graze, fishing, and in times of desperation, raiding the coasts and riverways of their previous homelands to the west.

The Synesis yielded and made the transaction, quietly, and machines gave the Lahui the help to which they were entitled in refurbishing the old travelers.