recycling

B1
US /riːˈsaɪkəlɪŋ/
noun verb Freq #13403

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    Those materials culled for recycling.

    He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday.

  2. 2
    noun

    Something 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."

  3. 3
    noun

    the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products

  4. 4
    noun

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

  5. 5
    verb

    present participle and gerund of recycle

Thesaurus

Word family
Derived forms antirecyclingbiorecyclinge-recyclinggrasscyclingnonrecyclingpeecyclingwishcycling

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