idiom
Reinvent the Wheel
ree-in-VENT the weel
/ˌriːɪnˈvɛnt ðə wiːl/Listen
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Syllable breakdown
reinventthewheel
Dictionary meaning
To waste effort recreating something that already exists and works well
Examples
- The engineering team was warned not to reinvent the wheel and to use established open-source libraries instead.
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