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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reinvent
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
wheel
▪ Learning by discovery doesn't mean reinventing the wheel each time you need to move the wagon.
▪ Without mentors we have to reinvent the wheel each new generation.
▪ I mean, why reinvent the wheel if it rolls?
■ VERB
try
▪ Some of the Windows programs failed farmers, says Mr Hamilton, because they tried to reinvent Windows.
▪ In this fast-changing environment, several commercial on-line services are trying to reinvent themselves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The American educational system needs to be reinvented.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the clothier credited with reinventing menswear in the 1980s faces arguably the most daunting challenge of his career.
▪ But to make our governments effective again we must reinvent them.
▪ He will tell us he is responsible for reinventing government and turning more power back to the states.
▪ Learning by discovery doesn't mean reinventing the wheel each time you need to move the wagon.
▪ The emphasis can only grow as even large companies are forced to reinvent themselves along more entrepreneurial, internet-enabled lines.
▪ Without mentors we have to reinvent the wheel each new generation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reinvent

1680s, from re- + invent. Related: Reinvented; reinventing. Phrase reinvent the wheel "do redundant work" attested by 1971.

Wiktionary
reinvent

vb. 1 To invent again something that has already been invented. 2 To adapt into a different form; to give a new style or image to.

WordNet
reinvent
  1. v. bring back into existence; "The candidate reinvented the concept of national health care so that he would get elected"

  2. create anew and make over; "He reinvented African music for American listeners"

Usage examples of "reinvent".

Abolish the apostrophe and it will be necessary, before the hour is up, to reinvent it.

Individuals have played an essential part in the malling of America, and they will play a crucial role in reinventing the mall.

The modern concept of nation thus inherited the patrimonial body of the monarchic state and reinvented it in a new form.

Everything seemed to be patched together, made from disparate parts and pieces, recycled, reinvented, repurposed, reused.

Every time the sun falls on a day in Boca Grande that day appears to vanish from local memory, to be reinvented if necessary but never recalled.

They want to be free to continue to reinvent American culture in their own image, finding art forms where back home we saw only hackwork and actresses where we saw only bimbos.

Individuals have played an essential part in the malling of America, and they will play a crucial role in reinventing the mall.

The colonel was going to have to reinvent airplane-type instrument flying, and his principal visual information would come not from gyro-referenced attitude sensors or radar displays but from a full-sphere screen distorting its picture into a Mollweide equal-area projection.

When, in the 1980s, molecular biologists themselves began to move beyond chemicals towards physiology, they reinvented the slice preparation, virtually unaware, it seems, of the way it had been developed two decades earlier.

Similar to the approach of other ethnic restaurants, Italian proprietors reinvented their offerings to appeal to the buying public, once again creating a hybrid ethnic cuisine.

Perhaps Hadrian had reinvented Judaea and turned it into Palestine, but the Jews seemed to have reinvented their religion as well.

It was bad enough during the campaign where he reinvented himself fifty times.

If he had any illusions about reinventing himself in a new environment he soon realized that Nassau, located just a few miles from his home, was not the place to do it.

I could foresee a time when its shrines and symbols would displace those of the old religion entirely, reinventing Britannia as a Christian land.

While his aides denied Gore encouraged this sale, his Reinventing Government called on the government to sell these precious oil reserves.