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réemployer

French, verb/ʁe.ɑ̃.plwa.je/

réemployer is a French verb meaning “to reuse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Employer à nouveau”.

What does réemployer mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to reuse

  2. 2

    to reemploy

  3. 3

    to reinvest (money)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Employer à nouveau.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of réemployer

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • réemployant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • réemployé participle past
  • réemploie first-person indicative present
  • réemploies indicative present second-person
  • réemployons first-person indicative plural
  • réemployez indicative plural present
  • réemploient indicative plural present
  • réemployais first-person imperfect indicative
  • réemployait imperfect indicative singular
  • réemployions first-person imperfect indicative
  • réemployiez imperfect indicative plural
  • réemployaient imperfect indicative plural
  • réemployai first-person historic indicative
  • réemployas historic indicative past
  • réemploya historic indicative past
  • réemployâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce réemployer?

  • /ʁe.ɑ̃.plwa.je/
  • \ʁe.ɑ̃.plwa.je\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is réemployer in French?

réemployer appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).