reinventing the wheel

English

Noun

reinventing the wheel (uncountable)

  1. The action of taking the effort to devise a solution to a problem, unaware of the fact that someone else has already devised the same solution to the same problem.

Verb

reinventing the wheel

  1. present participle and gerund of reinvent the wheel.
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