transcription, транскрипция: [ ri:ɪnvent ]
( reinvents, reinventing, reinvented)
1.
To reinvent something means to change it so that it seems different and new.
They have tried to reinvent their retail stores...
He was determined to reinvent himself as a poet and writer.
VERB : V n , V pron-refl
• re‧inven‧tion
...a reinvention of the styles of the 1940s.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If someone is trying to reinvent the wheel , they are trying to do something that has already been done successfully.
Some of these ideas are worth pursuing, but there is no need to reinvent the wheel.
PHRASE : V inflects