Usually means: Creating something already adequately existing.
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  1. reinventing the wheel: Wiktionary
  2. Reinventing the wheel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. Reinventing the wheel: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reinventing the wheel: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reinventing the wheel: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (reinventing the wheel)

noun:  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.

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