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repurposable

repurposable adjective: able to be repurposed; having alternative potential uses or functions beyond the original.

Adjective

repurposable (comparative more repurposable, superlative most repurposable)

  1. Able to be repurposed; having alternative potential uses or functions beyond the original.
    • A repurposable terminology resource would need to be comprehensive, i.e. it would need to include the superset of all the data categories and types of terms required for all uses.2018, Sin-wai Chan, The Human Factor in Machine Translation, page 120

Forms of repurposable

comparativemore repurposable
superlativemost repurposable

Origin of repurposable

From repurpose + -able.

Questions about repurposable

What does repurposable mean?
Repurposable means able to be repurposed; having alternative potential uses or functions beyond the original.
What part of speech is repurposable?
Repurposable is an adjective.

Words near repurposable in the dictionary

  1. repurple
  2. repurpled
  3. repurples
  4. repurpling
  5. repurposability
  6. repurposable
  7. repurpose
  8. repurposed
  9. repurposer
  10. repurposers
  11. repurposes

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