English Explanatory Dictionary

reinventing the wheel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The action of taking the effort to devise a solution to a problem, unaware of the fact that someone else has already devised the same solution to the same problem.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of reinvent the wheel.

Word forms

reinventing the wheel
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