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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To work over again; revise.
  • transitive verb To subject to a repeated or new process.
  • noun Something reworked.

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  • noun The act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.
  • noun in particular, food manufacturing Taking unsalable food and using it in the manufacture of other food.
  • noun Something redone, corrected or rebuilt.
  • noun Work done to correct defects associated with a deliverable product, plus any root cause analysis effort to identify the task(s) to be re-performed.
  • noun countable An instance of reworking.
  • verb To redo, correct, or rebuild.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb use again in altered form

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re- +‎ work.

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