Usually means: Reprocessing waste into new products.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word recycling:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. recycling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. recycling: Merriam-Webster
  3. recycling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. recycling: Vocabulary.com
  5. Recycling, recycling: Wordnik
  6. recycling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. recycling: Wiktionary
  8. recycling: Dictionary.com
  9. recycling: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. recycling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Recycling (ecological), Recycling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. recycling: Rhymezone
  13. recycling: FreeDictionary.org
  14. recycling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. recycling: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. recycling: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Recycling: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. recycling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recycling: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See recycle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
noun:  (uncountable) Those materials culled for recycling.
noun:  (usually figurative) Something made by recycling something else.

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