Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To utilize again; make use of a second time. Also spelled reutilise.

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  • verb To use or utilize something again, or for another purpose

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Examples

  • Despite continued amino acid catabolism with urea production, this mammal is able to completely salvage and reutilize urea nitrogen for protein synthesis, although the signals that initiate this metabolic adaptation are not known.

    "The disdain is palpable," Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry writes about Andrew Sullivan writing about me. Ann Althouse 2009

  • Ways will then be devised to takeover and reutilize these plots.

    The Times of India 2010

  • Although this type of development would be a change from the wooded lots and single-family homes University Heights is used to, Monson said it would save land by building more densely and reutilize an existing site.

    Iowa City Press-Citizen - Local News 2009

  • They also work with natural materials such as wool and reutilize their own and other industry's waste.

    TreeHugger 2009

  • What i want is to reutilize the size grip feature and, at the same time, maintain all the normal combobox functionality.

    The Code Project Latest Articles lhayes00 2009

  • -- Nissan Motor Co. and major trading house Sumitomo Corp. will start a joint project to reutilize used electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries.

    Automotive Headlines 2009

  • But, we are always looking for opportunities to basically reutilize that product that has been reserved and find a different application, so we can sell it.

    Hardware Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2008

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