Usually means: Creating something already adequately existing.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word reinvent the wheel:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. reinvent the wheel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reinvent the wheel: Merriam-Webster
  3. reinvent the wheel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reinvent the wheel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. reinvent the wheel: Wiktionary
  6. reinvent the wheel: Dictionary.com
  7. reinvent the wheel: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. reinvent the wheel: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. reinvent the wheel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reinvent the wheel: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (reinvent the wheel)

verb:  (idiomatic) To do work unnecessarily when it has already been done satisfactorily by others; to attempt to devise a solution to a problem when a solution already exists.

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