reusable

English

Etymology

From reuse +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

reusable (comparative more reusable, superlative most reusable)

1. Able to be used again; especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing
   • 2020 March 25, “Fleet News: ScotRail to dispose of first '43' donor”, in Rail, page 30:

     The donor power car, owned by SR, will then be removed from Haymarket depot and disposed of. It has already been stripped of reusable components for the IC7 power cars north of the border.

2. (computing) (of a program) Able to be executed by several tasks without being reloaded; either reentrant or serially reusable

Synonyms

• recyclable

Antonyms

• single-use, expendable

Derived terms

• reusability

Translations

able to be used again

• Armenian: վերամշակելի (veramšakeli), բազմակի օգտագործման (bazmaki ōgtagorcman)
• Bulgarian: преизползва́ем (preizpolzváem)
• Catalan: reutilitzable
• Dutch: herbruikbaar (nl)
• Finnish: uudelleenkäytettävä
• French: réutilisable (fr)
• Galician: reutilizable, reutilizábel
• German: wiederverwendbar (de), mehrweg-
• Hungarian: újrahasznosítható (hu), újrafelhasználható (hu)
• Icelandic: endurnýtanlegur, endurnotanlegur
• Italian: riutilizzabile
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjenbrukbaar

• Polish: wielokrotnego użytku, wielorazowy
• Portuguese: reutilizável
• Russian: многоразовый (ru) (mnogorazovyj)
• Spanish: reutilizable

able to be executed by several tasks without being reloaded

Noun

reusable (plural reusables)

1. Any product, such as a diaper, that is not disposable but can be used more than once.

Anagrams

• Bauerles

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reuˈsable/ [reu̯ˈsa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: reu‧sa‧ble

Adjective

reusable m or f (masculine and feminine plural reusables)

1. reusable

Further reading

• “reusable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014