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reusing

reusing is the present participle and gerund of reuse.

Meaning of reuse

Verb

reuse (third-person singular simple present reuses, present participle reusing, simple past and past participle reused)

  1. To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else).
    • The students reused empty plastic bottles in their science experiment.
  2. To use again, or in another place.
    • The estimated 2.7 million cubic metres of chalk and flint excavated from each tunnel (and then mixed with water to create slurry) will be treated and then reused to landscape the site and create a 127-hectare chalk grassland habitat.2021 July 14, Paul Stephen, “A portal into the future”, in RAIL, number 935, page 52

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Noun

reusing (plural reusings)

  1. reuse
    • Science tests that have been developed often involve, for reasons of economics, inexpensive materials that do not survive many reusings[…]2013, Milton D. Hakel, Beyond Multiple Choice, page 19

Forms of reusing

pluralreusings

Questions about reusing

What does reusing mean?
Reusing means reuse.
What is reusing the present participle and gerund of?
Reusing is the present participle and gerund of reuse.
What part of speech is reusing?
Reusing is a noun.
What is the plural of reusing?
The plural of reusing is reusings.

Words near reusing in the dictionary

  1. reused
  2. Reusel-De Mierden
  3. reuser
  4. reusers
  5. reuses
  6. reusing
  7. reusings
  8. Reuss
  9. Reusser
  10. Reussers
  11. Reusses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reusing (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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