OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 23619

reinvent

/ɹiːɪnˈvɛnt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
reinventar
To invent again something that has already been invented.
A narrative circulates at Mitchell, Hall about a naive young employee who, in his eagerness to be creative, "reinvents the wheel," devoting so many hours reformulating work that ha…
Overprocessing. The big problem in this area is a lack of standardization. A lot of time is spent reinventing the wheel. There are a lot of similar activities, and the lead time (s…