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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
renewable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a renewable resource (=one that replaces itself naturally, or is easily replaced)
▪ Trees are a renewable resource.
renewable energy (=energy such as solar or wind energy that can be replaced naturally)
▪ Switching to sources of renewable energy will reduce carbon emissions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
energy
▪ The production of renewable energy sources should also be promoted through grants, soft loans and fiscal incentives, the report concluded.
▪ It is encouraging to see that some organisations are taking renewable energy seriously.
▪ The workshop was attended by some 30 industrialists, financiers and renewable energy specialists from around the world.
▪ Double government spending on renewable energy research.
▪ It operates via the regional electricity companies, which must pay a premium price for renewable energy.
▪ The report begins with a background review of the status of renewable energy technologies in the late 1980s.
▪ Energy efficiency and renewable energy go hand in hand.
▪ Howard justified overruling the recommendation saying it was national policy to proceed as quickly as possible with renewable energy projects.
resource
▪ The basic challenge for sustainable agriculture is to maximise the use of locally-available and renewable resources.
▪ Trees are a renewable resource that when managed properly can sustain our needs indefinitely.
▪ Do we aggressively develop renewable resources?
▪ Paper Association, which points out that paper-producing wood is a renewable resource.
▪ The alternative is a small-scale industry, based on renewable resources - but designing this requires chemical expertise too.
▪ Today, very late, we are coming to accept the fact that the harvest of renewable resources must be controlled.
▪ This is essential if renewable resources like forests are to be maintained in a state that is conducive to future use.
▪ Data in essence were a free and renewable resource contributed by members of the cooperative and cooperatives like them around the world.
source
▪ And we should develop renewable sources of energy.
▪ No, not really, not if we were creating our own heat and light from natural renewable sources.
▪ That energy and enthusiasm didn't, alas, spring from a perpetual renewable source.
▪ Support tree planting schemes, the development of wind power and other renewable sources of energy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The 'green' housing community uses renewable energy sources such as solar power.
▪ The problem with fossil fuels is that they are not renewable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both groups favour investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.
▪ Contracts are made for an initial 4 years, renewable up to an additional 4-year period.
▪ It operates via the regional electricity companies, which must pay a premium price for renewable energy.
▪ The basic challenge for sustainable agriculture is to maximise the use of locally-available and renewable resources.
▪ The duration of section 2 may be up to 28 days and of section 3 up to six months, although it is renewable.
▪ Today, very late, we are coming to accept the fact that the harvest of renewable resources must be controlled.
▪ Trees are a renewable resource that when managed properly can sustain our needs indefinitely.
▪ We aren't powered by renewable energy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Renewable

Renewable \Re*new"a*ble\ (r?-n?"?-b'l), a. Capable of being renewed; as, a lease renewable at pleasure.
--Swift.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
renewable

1727, from renew + -able. In reference to energy sources, attested by 1971.

Wiktionary
renewable

a. 1 Able to be renewed; capable of renewal. 2 (context of a resource English) sustainable; able to be regrown or renewed; having an ongoing or continuous source of supply; not finite. n. 1 A thing that is #Adjective; ''especially'', a renewable source of energy. 2 A renewable resource.

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WordNet
renewable

  1. adj. that can be renewed or extended; "a renewable lease"; "renewable subscriptions" [ant: unrenewable]

  2. capable of being renewed; replaceable; "renewable energy such as solar energy is theoretically inexhaustible"

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Usage examples of "renewable".

They should, then, prepare for the unknown future by husbanding their ammunition and by substituting for it some easily renewable substance.

Under a five-year contract, dated July 7th, 1906, and renewable for five years more at the option of private contractors, the labor of the inmates of the Rhode Island Penitentiary and the Providence County Jail is sold to the Reliance-Sterling Mfg. Co.

Our two local asteroid belts supply ample resources, and we are careful not to overexploit those that are not renewable.

And would meet the menace with a fully developed, renewable air defence force, He hoped.

Plastic plumbing pipe (PVC pipes) can be manufactured using renewable hemp cellulose as the chemical feedstocks, replacing non-renewable coal or petroleum-based chemical feedstocks.

Lynn set out to see and learn if, indeed, hemp was one of Earth's primary renewable energy resources.

He researched the technology needed to bring clean, renewable energy into use on the planet.

The aerobic system delivers clean and renewable energy by extracting oxygen from the air via the lungs and burning it with glucose in the blood.

A non-polluting and totally renewable energy source, for as long as the sun kept shining.

We passed legislation allowing tax deductions for energy conservation and renewable energy expenditures for residential, commercial, and industrial use, and exempted mixed fuels that were at least 10 percent alcohol from the state gas tax.

Rob never goes on about the aesthetics of architecture or renewable energy sources.

So we can envision a house of the future built, plumbed, painted and furnished with the world's number-one renewable resource - hemp.

We call it a renewable resource, Clodagh,' Portia said like she was talking to someone dumb enough to go out in midwinter without a coat on.

Perhaps he would finally be able to discover how the ivops could be a renewable resource.

A renewable resource if properly looked after, its woods would provide income to the colonists in the form of everything from exotic furniture to tourism.