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Reuse vs Repurposing - What's the difference?

reuse | repurposing |

As verbs the difference between reuse and repurposing

is that reuse is while repurposing is .

As a noun repurposing is

the act by which something is repurposed.

reuse

English

Alternative forms

* re-use

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of salvaging or in some manner returning a discarded item into something usable.
  • (computing) code re-use'' indicates splitting program code into modules or classes so it can be re-used by other programs. ''data re-use refers to legal rights to re-use for publication, data that one has downloaded or licensed from a third party.

    • Verb

    (reus)
  • To use something that is considered past its usefulness, again (usually for something else).
    • The students reused empty plastic bottles in their science experiment.

    Derived terms

    * reuser

    Anagrams

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    repurposing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is repurposed.
  • * 2011 , Jonathan Harris, Globalization and Contemporary Art (page 229)
    • One theme of the mix is the international play of loans, snatches, repurposings , retroengineerings and recirculations of beats, motifs, techniques, and melodies between musicians in the diaspora and beyond.