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repurpose

 verb
     
re‧pur‧pose [transitive]
if something such as equipment, a building, or a document is repurposed, it is used in a new way that is different from its original use, without having to be changed very much [↪ adapt]:
We put a lot of material up on our website simply by repurposing our existing catalog.
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