Definition of "re-engineering" [re-engineering]

• Present participle of re-engineer. (verb)
• Alternative spelling of reengineering. (noun)

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• "In New York, a coalition of environmental groups, business owners and others are pressing Cuomo's administration to remove heavy equipment from streams and rivers and stop what they call re-engineering of the waterways, particularly in the Adirondack Mountains where several mountain brooks turned into torrents after Irene hit."
• "The earlier book made the business best-seller list by pillorying practices propagated in the name of re-engineering."
• "Meanwhile geoengineering -- the idea of re-engineering the entire planet with clouds of sulphur dust or dumps of iron and charcoal -- could easily end up in the broad definition of "green technologies.""