recycledadj.
/ˌriːˈsʌɪkld/, U.S. /riˈsaɪkəld/ That has been returned to an earlier stage of a cycle of operations; resulting from recycling; spec. manufactured partly from goods or materials that have been recycled. Also figurative: no longer fresh or novel; hackneyed.
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re-used1849
recycled1970
1926 U.S. Patent 1,574,547 8/1 The recycled gas..may be returned through openings or flues in the walls, floor or lining of the furnace.
1950 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) X. 835/1 The earliest Solvay plants used solid salt and dissolved it in a recycled alkaline water obtained from the scrubbing of calciner gases.
1963 Nation’s Manpower Revol. (Hearings before Senate Labor & Public Welfare Comm.)) vi. 2306 About one-fourth of all fibrous material consumed in the manufacture of paper and paperboard is waste paper. In other words, it is recycled paper.
1970 C. S. Russell et al. Drought & Water Supply viii. 68 Only 46 percent..indicated a willingness to drink recycled domestic water.
1978 D. Bloodworth Crosstalk xxiii. 180 He had driven the Deputy Director..half mad with his hesitation, his recycled arguments for accepting and not accepting.
1981 Times 6 Oct. 11/7 A recycled television script effectively adapted for the theatre.
1991 G. Burn Alma Cogan (1992) viii. 154 It was like a public swimming bath—fresh after the recycled air of the gallery.
1997 I. Sinclair Lights out for Territory (1998) 331 There is a much recycled story of Dame Phyllis being chauffeured through Middle England to some book bash in the company of Will Self.
2001 B. Lietaer Future of Money 173 Production of soap made from recycled cooking oil.
2006 Art Rev. Aug. 16 How can one even think of talking about the environment without backing up ideology with recycled paper?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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