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re-use

re-use is the alternative spelling of reuse.

Meaning of reuse

Noun

reuse (countable and uncountable, plural reuses)

  1. The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to yield something usable.
  2. The act of using again, or in another place.
    • Code reuse can save programmers a lot of typing.

See all 4 meanings of reuse

Forms of re-use

Noun
pluralre-uses
Verb
third-person singular presentre-uses
present participlere-using
past participlere-used
pastre-used

Words formed from re-use

Questions about re-use

What is re-use the alternative spelling of?
Re-use is the alternative spelling of reuse.

Words near re-use in the dictionary

  1. re-upping
  2. re-ups
  3. re-usable
  4. re-usage
  5. re-usages
  6. re-use
  7. re-used
  8. re-user
  9. re-users
  10. re-uses
  11. re-using

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: re-use (page history and authors); reuse (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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