Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - reinvent
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Reinvent
reinvent
(reinvents, reinventing, reinvented) 1. To reinvent something means to change it so that it seems different and new. They have tried to reinvent their retail stores... He was determined to reinvent himself as a poet and writer. VERB: V n, V pron-refl • reinvention ...a reinvention of the styles of the 1940s. N-UNCOUNT 2. If someone is trying to reinvent the wheel, they are trying to do something that has already been done successfully. Some of these ideas are worth pursuing, but there is no need to reinvent the wheel. PHRASE: V inflects
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transitive verb Date: 1686 1. to make as if for the first time something already invented ~ the wheel 2. to remake or redo completely 3. to bring into use again • ~ion noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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~ v 1 to produce an idea that is based on something that existed in the past 2 reinvent the wheel informal to waste time trying to find a way of doing something when someone else has already discovered the best way to do it ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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