1735 Petition of A. Gray 3 The repackage must have happened before those concerned in the Cargo, or any having Orders from them, could reach the place.

1787 J. Pugh Remarkable Occurr. Life J. Hanway i. 27 A quantity of raw cotton which lay in the steerage and was intended for the repackage of the bales of cloth in a proper manner for camel and horse carriage, was set on fire.

1836 Cultivator Nov. 119/2 The inspected piece of beef or pork be removed within three days after notice given to the owner or agent of repackage.

1877 W. F. Mayers Treaties betw. Empire of China & Foreign Powers 212 The Customs will issue a ‘Permit to Repack’ and appoint officers to repair to the godown and superintend the repackage.

1903 A. H. Lewis Black Lion Inn xvi. 234 The repackage and second appearance and sale of our prizes.

1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Aug. (Fanfare) 2/4 The latest offering is..a sleazy repackage of everything Elvis did that might be used to put kids to sleep.

1993 Industr. Prop. 26 Feb. 57/3 The cash is not additional Government investment, only a ‘topslicing’ repackage of existing resources.

2002 Entertainm. Weekly 20 Sept. 103/2 Remastered editions of 18 albums the Stones released between 1964 and 1970, plus four subsequent repackages.

1909 Calif. Pure Food & Drugs Acts 72 Foods and drugs repackaged within a State and sold only within that State are not subject to the Federal law.

1918 C. Thom & W. W. Fisk Bk. Cheese vi. 84 Cheese of any group may be run through mixing and molding machines and re-packaged in very different form from that characteristic of the variety.

1950 J. Steinberg Verdict of Three Decades iii. 521 Despotism can be re-packaged semantically as ‘new democracy’.

1966 Electronics 31 Oct. 42 Smallest model of IBM's new 4 Pi computer family, configured for a tactical missile. For other applications, the same basic design can be repackaged.

1979 Amer. Banker (Nexis) 27 Nov. 10 The committee repackaged the product to make it more attractive to this group.

1983 Listener 20 Oct. 5/1 The same set of ideas can be repackaged just so often.

2008 Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald (Nexis) 20 Sept. (Midlands ed.) 1 b Illegally repackaging real and counterfeit prescription drugs.

1957 Southern Econ. Jrnl. 24 177 Unfair competition of the trade mark and trade name variety extends to those cases where well known goods are altered by a repackager and sold under guise of the original.

2008 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Jan. ar13 Shrewd Hollywood producers would..hastily dub [the films]..into English and—if the repackagers were feeling particularly frisky—shoot a few minutes of new footage.

1927 Accounting Rev. 2 250 The wholesaler or retailer frequently makes a great many changes which substantially alter the physical appearance of the goods, particularly in the matter of repackaging.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Aug. v. 8/1 Santa Fe Style, a repackaging of the original Pueblo Revival, became one of the most celebrated design looks on the continent.