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1884 Lancet 17 May 918/1 If decomposition sets in, the heads bulge out. In the language of the trade such cans are ‘swells’... By punching another hole and heating or ‘re-processing’, the gases would escape and the heads would resume their concave form.

1906 School Rev. 14 692 Reprocess the remaining high-school subjects to make them fit for commercial consumption.

1948 News Chron. 15 Jan. 2/2 Production can be increased by reprocessing what we used to throw away.

1962 E. Godfrey Retail Selling & Organization xix. 190 When an item is sold, the punched ticket is returned to the warehouse, where it is re-processed for sales records to be made.

1990 Forbes 19 Feb. 92/2 Brinckman aimed at re-refining or re-processing the used oil and then selling it back into the market.

2002 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 25 May d18 Each paragraph accumulates new experiences even as it reprocesses old information.

1946 Science 2 Aug. 92/1 The material must be removed and treated chemically so that the atomic fuel of fissionable materials can be recovered, reprocessed, and returned to the pile.

1976 Dumfries & Galloway Standard 25 Dec. 12/2 The policy favoured at present is to re-process all nuclear fuel in a few politically-stable countries.

2004 P. Riley Nucl. Waste ii. 36 When spent nuclear fuel is reprocessed, both plutonium and uranium are recovered separately.

1884 Lancet 17 May 918/1 Two holes mark a ‘swell’ or ‘re-processed can’.

1941 Jrnl. Marketing 5 391/2 The relative wearing merit of ‘re-used’ or ‘re-processed’ wool as compared with ‘virgin’ wool.

1977 New Yorker 9 May 142/2 The Japanese are..troubled..by our objections to the use of reprocessed nuclear fuel.

2004 H. Fearnley-Whittingstall River Cottage Meat Bk. iv. 67 The cheapest cattle feeds of all were the ones that contained a lot of animal protein from reprocessed abattoir waste.