Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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vb. 1 To reuse for a different purpose, on a long-term basis, without alteration. 2 To alter to make more suited for a different purpose.
Usage examples of "repurpose".
The best way to do that is not to eliminate the worm, but to repurpose it.
But the Tholians can repurpose such deviant individuals and in effect program out the drives that might ultimately bring them here.
As a Tholian Mage it can reprogram Tholian individuals itself and keep the insurrection alive, repurpose individuals so that they can break away from the Assembly.
DeFanti had reworked the blimp scheme, trying to commercialize it, to repurpose satellite communications, just for local neighborhoods.
Fleming had an abundance of old buildings, and it appeared to Miranda that the borough had made an effort to repurpose as many of them as possible.
Instead, every object is tracked by RFID tags and subjected to a bioenergetic, cost-benefit, eBay-style arbitrage by repurposed stock-market buy-sell software agents.
Then they linked their newly created habitats to a Router network looted from a dead alien civilization, now repurposed by posthumans to carry wormhole traffic between the ever-expanding mesh of interstellar polities.
Everything seemed to be patched together, made from disparate parts and pieces, recycled, reinvented, repurposed, reused.
He lifted the lid on a large display case to reveal a huge variety of both repurposed vintage and modern inventory.
Could you take advantage of equipment available at your office if you repurposed your lunch hour?
The same filtering technology, repurposed in my homemade scanner, is what made my parking-lot forays productive.
My robotic aspirations have been repurposed toward a different world: the RFIDsphere.
An engraved brass plaque at each entrance described how the former ice-mine tunnel had been lovingly repurposed by the citizenry.
So, Van and his clients in AFOXAR now faced the serious technical challenge of repurposing this satellite control code for use in aircraft.
I need a shoulder bag lined with woven copper mesh to accompany the bug-zapper (my repurposed microwave oven), and there’s no way I could order a Faraday cage from one of the stores without setting off alarms.