Meaning of retread In English

• 0 to put a new rubber surface on the outer part of a worn tyre:

  • Your tyres need retreading.

• 1 to do something that has been done before, without adding any new ideas:

  • Clearly they have run out of ideas and are retreading old ground.

  • The film retreads familiar horror and melodrama territory.

  • There's money to be made in retreading cinematic steps and some studios exploit this.

  • He ventures into the Polish countryside to retread the final steps of his family.

• 2 a tyre that has had a new rubber surface put on its outer surface:

  • Are those new tyres or retreads?

• 3 a book, film, show, etc. that uses ideas that have been used before:

  • This is no Jane Austen retread.

  • Technically, the show is a retread of the last one.

• 4 a worn tire that has had a new rubber surface joined to its outer part