verb
- past tense and past participle of rekey: to change the key or keys of a lock so that old keys no longer work
- past tense and past participle of rekey: to enter data again using a keyboard
Usage: computing
Examples
- The landlord rekeyed the apartment after the previous tenant moved out.
- We had the front door rekeyed for security reasons.
- The locksmith rekeyed all the locks to work with one master key.
- She rekeyed the entire document after the computer crashed.
- The data entry clerk rekeyed the corrupted files.
- They rekeyed the building’s entrance after losing the keys.