1 to use something for a different purpose to the one for which it was originally intended: --
repurpose sth as sth Cities have repurposed their former downtown and industrial areas as entertainment districts.
These systems allow for a much more efficient way to recapture and repurpose the heat created with combustion generators.
The objects stored in the centralized repository can be made available to course developers and content experts throughout an organization for potential reuse and repurpose.
Attempts by various organizations have begun to repurpose the high-rise.
They repurpose the buildings and redevelop the land while working with and selling/leasing the land to private developers.
Much remodeling was done throughout the site so as to repurpose buildings to suit their own needs.
They would repurpose the sanctuary itself, and build an economically feasible tower in the empty space where the educational wing once stood.
Since the transference of ownership, restoration has commenced on various elements of the sites, but no specific repurposing has been determined.
Over the centuries, the two monuments endured numerous attempts of destruction in order to repurpose their materials.
