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demanufacture

demanufacture noun: a process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.

Noun

demanufacture (uncountable)

  1. A process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.
    • The Parties define the life cycle of electronic equipment broadly to include acquisition, design, manufacture, assembly, distribution, use, reuse, demanufacture, and recycling. (from the Sustainable Environmental Stewardship of Federal Electronic Assets" PDF signed 11-15-2004)
    • ... other demand documents, and clerical procedures required in effecting the manufacture or demanufacture of field units as directed by higher authority.1952, Federal supply management (Air Force supply--Munitions Board): hearings, page 457

Verb

demanufacture (third-person singular simple present demanufactures, present participle demanufacturing, simple past and past participle demanufactured)

  1. To recycle material using this process
    • An RPS is a network of transportation logistics and processing functions that collect, recycle, refurbish, and demanufacture end-of-life products.2007, Myer Kutz, Environmentally Conscious Materials and Chemicals Processing, page 161

Forms of demanufacture

third-person singular presentdemanufactures
present participledemanufacturing
past participledemanufactured
pastdemanufactured

Origin of demanufacture

From de- + manufacture.

Words formed from demanufacture

Questions about demanufacture

What does demanufacture mean?
Demanufacture means a process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.
What part of speech is demanufacture?
Demanufacture can be a noun or a verb.

Words near demanufacture in the dictionary

  1. demannosylation
  2. demans
  3. demantoid
  4. demantoid garnet
  5. demantoids
  6. demanufacture
  7. demanufactured
  8. demanufacturer
  9. demanufacturers
  10. demanufactures
  11. demanufacturing

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