Remanufactured

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Made like new again by rebuilding or replacing parts to restore original function
2. Reconditioned through thorough repair and replacement to match original performance
3. Refurbished by restoring or replacing components to return to factory-like quality

Etymology: "Remanufactured" is the past tense and past participle of "remanufacture", a word built from the prefix "re-", meaning again or back, and "manufacture". The base word "manufacture" has an interesting history of its own: it comes from Latin "manu factum", literally "made by hand", and it originally described the making of goods by hand rather than by machine. Over centuries the sense shifted to cover industrial production, so that a word once tied to a craftsperson's bench now describes factory output. Adding "re-" creates a word for making something again, and the sense here is specific: a used product is taken apart, its worn parts are repaired or replaced, and it is restored to the performance of the original. The prefix does the work of "again" without implying that the object was made from scratch a second time in the ordinary sense. The word is a plain formation from existing parts, so its history is essentially that of its two components.

Synonyms: refurbished, reconditioned, reassembled, repaired, renewed

Antonyms: worn, used, damaged, degraded, unrefurbished