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Reinvent the wheel

Meaning in business english, with examples

idiomCommon term

In business english, reinvent the wheel means: To spend effort creating something that already exists and could be reused.

In Turkish: var olan çözümü yeniden üretmek

How it is used

Used when encouraging reuse. Check whether the existing solution really fits before treating new work as unnecessary duplication.

Example sentences

  1. Let's not reinvent the wheel when the finance team already has a suitable reporting template.

    An existing suitable template makes duplicate design unnecessary.

  2. Each branch had tried to reinvent the wheel instead of sharing its supplier checklist.

    Poor sharing causes repeated effort across the organization.

Common collocations

  • avoid reinventing the wheel
  • needlessly reinvent the wheel
  • in-houseDone or employed inside a company by its own staff, rather than by an outside supplier or agency.
  • workloadThe amount of work that a person or a team has to do in a given period of time.

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