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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reuse
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Sterilized needles for taking blood are never reused.
▪ The supermarket encourages shoppers to reuse plastic bags.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Buss believes his project is the right way to reinvigorate a neighborhood, by reusing existing buildings.
▪ Certainly we know from Pope Gregory's instructions that temples existed and were reused by the Christians.
▪ His power dams were also running day and night, spilling water into the ocean before it could be reused.
▪ I keep all my drawings and quite often reuse them years later.
▪ Never reuse old remedy bottles or envelopes for a different remedy or potency.
▪ Of course, it helps that the actual La Jolla gallery space was reused from the earlier design.
▪ With downsizing and consolidation all the rage, owners are left with empty spaces and few choices in reusing them.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reuse

also re-use, 1843, from re- + use (v.). Related: Reused; reusing.

reuse

1850, from re- + use (n.).

Wiktionary
reuse

alt. 1 The act of salvaging or in some manner returning a discarded item into something usable. 2 (context computing English) ''code re-use'' indicates splitting program code into modules or classes so it can be re-used by other programs. ''data re-use'' refers to legal rights to re-use for publication, data that one has downloaded or licensed from a third party. n. 1 The act of salvaging or in some manner returning a discarded item into something usable. 2 (context computing English) ''code re-use'' indicates splitting program code into modules or classes so it can be re-used by other programs. ''data re-use'' refers to legal rights to re-use for publication, data that one has downloaded or licensed from a third party. vb. To use something that is considered past its usefulness, again (usually for something else).

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WordNet
reuse

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

Wikipedia
Reuse

To reuse is to use an item again after it has been used. This includes conventional reuse where the item is used again for the same function, and creative reuse where it is used for a different function. In contrast, recycling is the breaking down of the used item into raw materials which are used to make new items. By taking useful products and exchanging them, without reprocessing, reuse help save time, money, energy, and resources. In broader economic terms, reuse offers quality products to people and organizations with limited means, while generating jobs and business activity that contribute to the economy.

Historically, financial motivation was one of the main drivers of reuse. In the developing world this driver can lead to very high levels of reuse, however rising wages and consequent consumer demand for the convenience of disposable products has made the reuse of low value items such as packaging uneconomic in richer countries, leading to the demise of many reuse programs. Current environmental awareness is gradually changing attitudes and regulations, such as the new packaging regulations, are gradually beginning to reverse the situation.

One example of conventional reuse is the doorstep delivery of milk in refillable bottles; other examples include the retreading of tires and the use of returnable/reusable plastic boxes, shipping containers, instead of single-use corrugated fiberboard boxes.

Usage examples of "reuse".

Ways to conserve and reuse water, together with economical desalting of sea water, will be essential in the decades ahead.

It is as if, he says, nature develops habitsmorphic units with morphic fields, which he also calls holonsand once these holons are developed or become set as habits of nature, then nature simply keeps reusing them in succeeding stagesanother version of compound individuality.

Steam carouseled ceilingward, sucked out through recycling vents to be recondensed and reused.

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

Everything that could be reused had been stripped from the Tithansi bodies: leather thongs and straps, leggings and belts, weapons, even braids of hair.

One was full of dirty socks and underwear, two contained used booties that could be reused after they were washed, one held mittens and spare face mask.

It is as if, he says, nature develops habitsmorphic units with morphic fields, which he also calls holonsand once these holons are developed or become set as habits of nature, then nature simply keeps reusing them in succeeding stagesanother version of compound individuality.

Sharp turns of the reused and reused rails, and the snatch of railroad skirts impedimentspools, rock snarls.

He knew, in his heart, that a wrecked spaceship was dead metal, scrap that might as well be reused, and nothing more.

The cards from the last hand were placed on a pile which was shuffled and reused when the pack ran out.

In theory, personal effects should be returned, military equipment reused or sent for disposal.

People disappeared to slip into positions and all unnecessary equipment was quietly removed if small, disabled so it could be reused later if not.

By the time I figured it out all the shelters had been gathered and reused to make the bivouac.

Water was expensive on Mars and was used and reused wherever possible.

Taking the first risk himself, he drew a last lungful of the heavily reused air in his suit .