precycle
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
pre- + cycle, modelled on recycle.
Verb[edit]
precycle (third-person singular simple present precycles, present participle precycling, simple past and past participle precycled)
- To avoid the need to recycle, for example by not using prepackaging.
- 2008 October 30, Tanis Taylor, “Waste Not, Want Not”, in The Guardian:
- Recyling is good, but precycling - cutting out packaging in the first place and buying only what you need - is better.