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Redo vs Redux - What's the difference?

redo | redux |

As a verb redo

is to do again.

As a noun redo

is a repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc.

As an adjective redux is

redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

redo

English

Verb

  • To do again.

    • Synonyms

    * (to do again) rework

    Antonyms

    * (to do again) undo

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 1, author=C. J. Hughes, title=Where Change Is Underfoot, and Overhead, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Eight years ago, the apartment cost $292,000, and the three redos totaled $48,000, but though he has no plans to sell, he thinks he could get $600,000 for the place today. }}

    Anagrams

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    redux

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of a topic) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
    • Company policy redux .
    Dirty tricks redux .
  • * 2004 , Robert A. Levy, Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process , page 265:
    • 10. It's Microsoft Redux All Over Again. Maybe the fat lady hasn't crooned the final note, but the petite lady who carried the most weight, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, wrote the denouement to the Microsoft antitrust fiasco.

    Usage notes

    is always used attributively and after the noun rather than before it.

    See also

    * redo * rediscuss

    References

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