Word info

repackaging

Speech parts

1. repackaging - Noun

2. repackaging - Verb

Meaning

repackaging

present participle of repackage

The process of packaging something again or anew.

(finance) The purchasing of all of the stock in a public company and taking it private in order to resell at a profit.
Synonym: repack

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias. Raymond Geuss

A smaller, less scalable implementation followed, called Origin 300. In November 2002, SGI announced a repackaging of its SN system, under the name Origin 3900. Source: Internet

Erlewine elsewhere observes that, "the anti-record company "Paint a Vulgar Picture" – on Strangeways, Here We Come – "has grown increasingly ironic in the wake of the Smiths' and Morrissey's love of repackaging the same material in new compilations." Source: Internet

As shown in Figure 1, Rootnik distributes itself by repackaging and injecting malicious code into legitimate Android apps. Source: Internet

Council Chief Health Inspector Muchoka Muchoka believes the destruction of the bottles will prevent local traders from repackaging the bottles with water and other local brews. Source: Internet

Enter a Brazilian-born designer with a simple and ingenious idea of taking a big, abstract issue like air pollution and repackaging the information in a way that really hits home. Source: Internet

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