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1889 N.Y. Times 24 Feb. 10/1 He would spend £1,500,000 at once in rearming, re-engineering, and repairing some of the older iron-clads.

1921 Wall St. Jrnl. 20 Jan. 11/3 The company has re-engineered all bodies so that all parts of cars of same model are interchangeable.

1944 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Dec. 4-0/3 Management and labor should decide now..whether jobs re-engineered for women will be restored to provide work for servicemen.

1958 J. K. Galbraith Affluent Society xiii. 194 The first task of the public relations man is to ‘re-engineer’ his image to include something besides the production of goods.

1977 Gramophone Feb. 1346/2 The new GT55P arm has been completely re-engineered.

1996 Financial Times 11 Jan. 13/2 (advt.) Previous experience of using IT systems to ‘re-engineer’ finance operations is a requirement.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 July iv. 5/4 Under the stimulus of high gas prices, synthetic biologists are re-engineering microbes to generate the components of natural gas and petroleum.

1936 Washington Post 15 Nov. Automobile section 7/3 (heading) Re-Engineered System Aid to Riding Comfort.

1977 Time 18 Apr. 46/2 What would happen, they ask, if by accident or design, one variety of re-engineered E. coli proved dangerous?

1998 N.Y. Times 18 Jan. iii. 9/1 As many as 70 percent of re-engineered businesses acknowledge that they are worse off after their restructuring.