reusableadj.

1877 Rep. Proc. 14th Ann. Meeting Brit. Assoc. Gas Managers 45 Calculating..1s. 6d. for amortization on a lifetime of ten years, less value of re-usable material.

1895 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 17 841 Its by-product would not be re-usable.

1949 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 276 (advt.) Automatically feeds and shoots 65 re-usable pellets in rapid succession.

1971 Engineering Apr. 59/2 Some strippable coatings are reusable.

2007 Independent 14 Nov. 2/1 Shoppers..will be asked to use sturdy reusable plastic ‘bags for life’ or cotton or string hold-alls.

1962 Ways & Means of effecting Economies National Space Program (Hearing before U.S. House of Representatives Sci. & Astronaut. Comm., 87th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 156 The orbital basing concept could employ a reusable launch vehicle or aerospace plane in the role of a scheduled cargo carrier.

1987 P. B. Stares Space & Nat. Security 77 Conceivably, satellites could also be..captured by reusable launch vehicles like the U.S. space shuttle.

2003 T3 Mar. 69/1 Passengers will cruise 62 miles above the earth at the very edge of space, in a Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) that'll fly three to five times faster than a commercial airliner.

1918 Federal Reporter 250 859 The pushed-in or concave cover..is the antithesis of the means by which Spengler..produces closure and reusability on a common bottle.

1993 Computing 11 Nov. 46/1 Reusability refers to the ability to reuse a component of a system rather than the whole system.