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resealable

adjectiveB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Resealable means able to be closed again after opening. A resealable bag, resealable packaging.

It is a selling point on anything eaten a little at a time. A resealable pack keeps food fresher and makes it far easier to eat the lot in one sitting.

Definitions of resealable

  1. 1adjectiveresealableAble to be closed again after opening.B2

    “The coffee came in a resealable bag with a one-way valve.”

resealable is a quality.

Where it comes from

From reseal + -able.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Containers & Packaging

Practise this word

resealable in the wild

  • A resealable screw-top allows the contents to be used at various times while retaining carbonation.

    Two-liter bottle

  • In 2012, they began marketing some of their craft beer in resealable aluminum containers, and in 2012, they expanded and established another brewery in Brevard, North Carolina.

    Oskar Blues Brewery

  • Bottle Tops is a device that snaps on to most 12- and 16-ounce aluminum cans and turns them into resealable containers.

    Bottle Tops

  • In these applications, fugitive glues are not resealable pressure-sensitive adhesives such as are used on pressure-sensitive tapes or post-it notes, although resealable formulations are available.

    Fugitive glue

  • Typically, as with wash bottles and commercial resealable containers for many viscous fluids including sauces and adhesives, it is the main body of the container that is squeezed.

    Squeeze bottle

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.