recycling

nounverbattested in dialogue

United States

The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.

noun

1
The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
2
Those materials culled for recycling.
He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday.
3
figurativeSomething made by recycling something else.
Eddie Holman is still best remembered for his soulful, falsettoed/sex-changed recycling of Ruby & The Romantics' big-time smoothie from 1963, "Hey There Lonely Boy."

verb

1
Also a form of recyclepresent participle and gerund of recycle

Forms

plural: recyclings

recruit · A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.recruiting · The process by which a person is recruited; recruitment.recycle · To break down and reuse component materials.

recycling · The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.

red · The colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the…Red · A Communist.RED · red (hair color).

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