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Art

 * Appropriation (art) is the use of repurposing pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts (audiovisual, literary, musical and performing arts). In the audiovisual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of human-made audiovisual culture. Notable in this respect are the Readymades of Marcel Duchamp and sampling in Hip Hop music.

Automobiles

 * Full-size vans from the Big Three which have been used for airport shuttle service have been repurposed as church vans mainly because of some depreciation to facilitate affordable cost for thrifty church groups.
 * Old school buses that are not used anymore get repurposed as a recreational vehicle. The seats would be removed and they would install things like a bed, kitchen, dining table, and more in the vehicle.

Electronics

 * A USB dead drop can be mounted on a brick wall since this gives an opportunity to repurpose older USB flash drives with obsolete capacities to continue service for file transfer (especially anonymous ones) that don't demand more than one gigabyte.
 * Everdrive and other flash video game cartridges have offered opportunities to download ROM images of video game cartridges onto SD cards while offering opportunities to repurpose real vintage video game consoles for retro gameplay.
 * Old Android smartphones, which tend to have little computing resources yet which are unused and probably contain a triaxial accelerometer of decent specifications, can be used as an amateur seismograph node for a distributed seismography project, e.g., Quake-Catcher Network.
 * Discarded or new consumer COTS surplus parabolic reflectors intended for use for C band satellite TV reception can be repurposed for a wide gamut of applications for which a consumer-grade reflector of low gain is adequate, incl. amateur microwave SETI (mainly Project Argus), Wi-Fi links, and microwave amateur radio radio beacons.
 * Most old phones still have a lot of usable parts that can be repurposed into other electronics. They can be converted to an security camera, portable charger, smart watch, power banks, and many more.

As a tactic for manufacturing goods

 * Right-hand-drive Jeep brand vehicles, such as the Jeep Wrangler, which are initially slated for import to right-hand-drive countries, have had some specially designed versions repurposed for US and Canada postal service mail carrying, in which this tactic of repurposing can consolidate the overhead of retooling for specialty manufacturing of the vehicle.

Manufacturing of recycled goods

 * Reusable packaging can be reused for a wide variety of other purposes.
 * Recycling can also involve repurposing of materials, such as products using recycled paper.
 * Reusable cardboard boxes can be reused for many purposes like shoe boxes, storage boxes, cat house, and many more.

Drugs

 * Drug repositioning (also known as "drug repurposing" or "therapeutic switching") is the application of known drugs and compounds to treat new diseases. Examples include Pfizer's Viagra for erectile dysfunction and Celgene's thalidomide for cancer.
 * Off-label use
 * Drugs such as Viagra was meant to treat different cardiovascular disorders but many companies repurposed it for other usage.

Real property

 * Real estate, including land and buildings, is routinely adaptive reused for other purposes, both short-term and long-term, due to its high fixed cost. An example is conversion of old industrial mills.

Scrap and household materials

 * Scrap metal has countless applications for repurposing.
 * Furniture has countless applications for repurposing.
 * Kitchen Utensils has many unique repurposing opportunities.
 * Beverage bottles: Water bottles may be repurposed for solar water disinfection. Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew is a Buddhist temple in Thailand made from one million discarded beer bottles.
 * Plastic has many applications for repurposing.