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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reprocess
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
reprocess waste (=treat radioactive waste so that it can be used again)
▪ The plant reprocesses nuclear waste.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fuel
▪ The plant will initially reprocess irradiated fuels from the country's five existing nuclear power plants.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The plant's main function has been to reprocess uranium.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ However, the number of skips provided is low and there is little incentive for consumers or manufacturers to collect and reprocess.
▪ If you have to pay to reprocess the plutonium from spent fuel, though, it does not.
▪ The plant will initially reprocess irradiated fuels from the country's five existing nuclear power plants.
▪ The United Kingdom does not reprocess nuclear waste; we do not even import nuclear waste.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reprocess

1939, from re- "back, again" + process (v.). Related: Reprocessed; reprocessing.

Wiktionary
reprocess

vb. process again

WordNet
reprocess

v. use again after processing; "We must recycle the cardboard boxes" [syn: recycle, reuse]

Usage examples of "reprocess".

He then rummaged in his pockets until he found his powerful analgesic tablet, popped it into his mouth, swallowed it with more of the reprocessed water.

The waste management system had been thoroughly modernised in recent years, and organic microfilters worked hard to reprocess all the daily shit the city could produce.

Then he reduced the paper to pulp, reprocessed it to accommodate five pound notes, meticulously reengraved the plates and began running off five-pound notes as fast as the presses could roll.

It fired a ball made of compacted pliant feces—which at this point was largely reprocessed strange attractors.

They are simply careful about allowing leaks to pinpoint their atomic piles and reprocessing plants.

The passengers are being slopped with freezing-cold sandwiches of slippery meat and processed cheese food, and are re-breathing the farts and exhalations of others in economically reprocessed air, a variation on the ditch-liquor principle established by cattle and pig merchants in the 1950s.

This was a joke, in Mr Gray's view, not much different from calling shit reprocessed food or genocide ethnic cleansing.

Once it had generated power, made medical isotopes, run three reprocessing lines and a nuclear waste-packaging plant.

With a human translator sound is processed, and understood morphemically, which understanding is then reprocessed into the new phonemic structures.

All nuclear waste contained in this station - now stored in Section Number Eight - must be reprocessed in the quickest possible time, and the blocks laid to rest in granite with a minimum escape of radiation.

The big gray sheds were for reprocessing nuclear waste, extracting usable fuel from spent material.

Then in pops this creature reprocessed as one of the Chalidang, and with a totally new form and no briefing nor much else, the damned thing manages to disarm its captors, kill several of these folk who are lifelong professionals at it and know everything about their race, and before it even knew the name of the place, it had taken over and totally commanded a village halfway to the capital.

There is some feeling, though, that when you all were reprocessed through the Well you somehowbroke it.

These somewhat colorful lobsterlike creatures had not been directly involved as yet in any conflict, but it turned out that the number three in the delegation was in fact a reprocessed one himself, and had been physically, and remained mentally, Josich the Emperor Hadun's half brother.

Somehow, not only had he known about this place, he'd known how to get himself reprocessed as something very close to the Hadun, perhaps a distant relative of the common source of the race, and he had managed to do it without triggering the Well's legendary defenses.