Fire Alarm Bell Repurposed for waking the dead

What sort of word is repurposed????

I must make sure I'm adequately rethirsted before I have another coffee...

Repurposed

To use or convert for use in another format or product

Yes I had to look this one up myself. I guess you glean something new every day.

Maybe it is a legitimate word but it's ugly lazy language...there are doubtless more elegant alternatives.

.. like ' reused '... shorter, just as explicit and more accurate as surely the 'purpose' of the bell hasn't been changed.. after all it's still a bell !
..Now if it had been converted into a soup bowl I'd be less irritated.

Del

In fact, it is still a Fire Bell. As in: "Get up you schlub, or you are going to get fired!"

/rimshot

'Schlub'? Oh, dear. There's another one, Del.

I knew someone at my old university who could sleep thru even the loudest alarm clock. He built himself a rig that sprayed cold water on himself from different angles when his alarm clock went off. A much saner alternative when living in a built-up residential area.

Bah, I like the bell. If that doesn't wake you up, the beating you will recieve from your annoyed neighbors will do the trick.

:)