reusable

English

Etymology

From reuse +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

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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, disposable

Derived terms

• nonreusable
• reposable
• reusability
• reusably
• unreusable

Translations

able to be used again

Armenian: վերամշակելի (veramšakeli), բազմակի օգտագործման (bazmaki ōgtagorcman) Bulgarian: преизползва́ем (preizpolzváem) Catalan: reutilitzable Danish: genbrugelig 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025