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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of refurbish.

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Examples

  • Bombardier is the U.K.'s only train builder and manufactures, refurbishes and maintains rolling stock for the rail transportation industry.

    Bombardier to Cut Over 1,400 U.K. Jobs Jonathan Buck 2011

  • But back home in Landover, Mistaya's frustrated father is just as determined that the precocious princess learn some responsibility, and he declares her grounded until she successfully refurbishes the long-forsaken royal library.

    A Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks: Book summary 2010

  • Owns "EXTREME" [some type of aerospace firm] ... refurbishes aircrafts.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • The plan would put $30 billion into renovations at schools and community colleges, $50 billion into the modernization of roads, airports, waterways and railroads, $15 billion into "Project Rebuild," a program that refurbishes vacant and foreclosed homes and $10 billion into financing for a national infrastructure bank that would use both public and private investment to finance infrastructure projects.

    Unpacking The Jobs Plan 2011

  • Brightpoint Inc. of Indianapolis, which provides world-wide distribution and other logistical services to cellphone makers and network operators, paid $76 million in December to acquire Touchstone Wireless Repair & Logistics LP of Hatfield, Pa., which repairs and refurbishes cellphones.

    Entrepreneurs Find Gold in Used Phones James R. Hagerty 2011

  • For example, Otis Elevator company still maintains and refurbishes elevators installed 120 years ago.

    NASA Finds The Metric System Too Hard To Implement for Constellation - NASA Watch 2009

  • Owns "EXTREME" [some type of aerospace firm] ... refurbishes aircrafts.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Owns "EXTREME" [some type of aerospace firm] ... refurbishes aircrafts.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Owns "EXTREME" [some type of aerospace firm] ... refurbishes aircrafts.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • New York-based nonprofit Per Scholas refurbishes used computers and donates them to low income middle school students -- an entire school at a time.

    Per Scholas, Nonprofit, Recycles Old Computers To Give Low Income Students A New Chance To Learn 2010

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