re-engineer

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re- +‎ engineer

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re-engineer (third-person singular simple present re-engineers, present participle re-engineering, simple past and past participle re-engineered)

  1. (transitive) To modify the design of an existing system, organization, process or product in order to make it more effective, efficient or responsive.
    • 2018 November 11, Achille Mbembe, “The idea of a borderless world”, in Africa Is a Country[1]:
      More specifically I would like to see whether and under what conditions we could re-engineer the utopia of a borderless world, and by extension, a borderless Africa, since, as far as I know, Africa is part of the world. And the world is part of Africa.
    • 2020 August 12, Richard Clinnick, “'319' conversion advances Orion freight plans”, in Rail, pages 14–15:
      The first to be converted is 319010, which was re-engineered internally by Gemini Rail Services at Wolverton Works and is now at Brush Traction, Loughborough, being fitted with diesel gensets.

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