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recycling

recycling noun: the practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use. Also the present participle and gerund of recycle.

Noun

recycling (countable and uncountable, plural recyclings)

  1. The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
  2. (uncountable) Those materials culled for recycling.
    • He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday.
  3. (figuratively, usually) Something made by recycling something else.
    • Eddie Holman is still best remembered for his soulful, falsettoed/sex-changed recycling of Ruby & The Romantics' big-time smoothie from 1963, "Hey There Lonely Boy."1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 250

Also used as

recycling is also the present participle and gerund of recycle.

recycling meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

recycling in Hindi

the practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use
पुनर्चक्रण punarcakraṇ

recycling in Tamil

the practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use
மறுசுழற்சி maṟucuḻaṟci

recycling in Marathi

पुनर्चक्रण, पुनर्नवीनीकरण

recycling in Urdu

ری سائیکلنگ, ریسائیکلنگ
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recycling in Bengali
পুনর্ব্যবহার
recycling in Telugu
రీసైక్లింగ్
recycling in Malayalam
റീസൈക്ലിംഗ്
recycling in Kannada
ಮರುಬಳಕೆ, ಮರುಬಳಕೆಯ
recycling in Punjabi
ਰੀਸਾਈਕਲਿੰਗ, ਰੀਸਾਈਕਿੰਗ
recycling in Gujarati
રિસાયક્લિંગ, રીસાયક્લિંગ, રીસાયકલિંગ
recycling in Odia
ପୁନଃଚକ୍ରଣ
recycling in Nepali
पुनर्चक्रण, रिसाइक्लिङ, पुनर्चक्रण गर्ने
recycling in Arabic
إِعَادَةْ تَدْوِير ʔiʕādat tadwīr
recycling in Persian
بازیافت bâzyâft

Forms of recycling

pluralrecyclings

Words formed from recycling

Phrases with recycling

Questions about recycling

What does recycling mean?
Recycling means the practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
What is recycling in Hindi?
Recycling in Hindi is पुनर्चक्रण (punarcakraṇ). See Recycling meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is recycling?
Recycling is a noun.
What is the plural of recycling?
The plural of recycling is recyclings.

Words near recycling in the dictionary

  1. recycled
  2. recycler
  3. recyclers
  4. recycles
  5. recyclic
  6. recycling
  7. recycling bin
  8. recycling bins
  9. recycling station
  10. recycling stations
  11. recycling symbol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recycling (page history and authors); recycling (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); recycling (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); recycling (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); recycling (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); recycling (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); recycling (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); recycling (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); recycling (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); recycling (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); recycling (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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