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re-usable

re-usable is the alternative form of reusable.

Meaning of reusable

Adjective

reusable (comparative more reusable, superlative most reusable)

  1. Able to be used again; especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing
    • The donor power car, owned by SR, will then be removed from Haymarket depot and disposed of. It has already been stripped of reusable components for the IC7 power cars north of the border.2020 March 25, “Fleet News: ScotRail to dispose of first '43' donor”, in Rail, page 30
  2. (of a program) Able to be executed by several tasks without being reloaded; either reentrant or serially reusable

See all 3 meanings of reusable

Forms of re-usable

Adjective
comparativemore re-usable
superlativemost re-usable
Noun
pluralre-usables

Questions about re-usable

What is re-usable the alternative form of?
Re-usable is the alternative form of reusable.

Words near re-usable in the dictionary

  1. re-uploading
  2. re-uploads
  3. re-upped
  4. re-upping
  5. re-ups
  6. re-usable
  7. re-usage
  8. re-usages
  9. re-use
  10. re-used
  11. re-user

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-usable (page history and authors); reusable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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