repurposev.
/ˌriːˈpəːpəs/, U.S. /riˈpərpəs/ transitive. To convert or adapt for a different purpose or for use in a different way.Originally with reference to recording formats.
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1984 PR Newswire (Nexis) 28 Mar. Visage products will allow developers to ‘repurpose’ video discs—that is, use one video disc to produce many different video programs without pressing a new disc.
1995 D. E. Steinbock Triumph & Erosion in Amer. Media & Entertainm. Industries v. 157 The multimedia industry..spent an estimated $200 million a year on research and development, hoping to convert PC users and ‘repurpose’ existing materials to CDROM.
2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 Jan. 32/1 ‘Most online retailers are inherently self-purchase,’ Billings says. They ‘repurpose themselves just before Christmas as gift companies.’
2006 Icon May 164/1 The re-carpeting project will also involve repurposing the council's old carpet tiles.
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ˌreˈpurposed adj.
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1989 Optical Information Syst. 9 245/1 Productivity applications that have the capability to either standalone or drive existing or repurposed multimedia CD-ROMs or videodiscs.
2006 Independent 8 Apr. (Mag.) 51/1 The first fashionable freestanding baths..were restored Victorian claw- and ball-footed ones, planted in the middle of a re-purposed bedroom in newly fashionable Georgian Canonbury.
ˌreˈpurposing n.
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1988 Small Computers in Libraries Apr. 28/2 Text, graphics, and layout designs are available for reuse, updating, and repurposing for a number of different contexts.
2007 L. Shyles Art of Video Production i. 12 It permits repurposing of programs for different applications that..didn't exist before.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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