reinventing the wheel

/R IY0 IH0 N V EH1 N T IH0 NG DH AH0 W IY0 L/
noun
  1. 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.

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