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Is the word "reusal" part of the English language?

For example, given this sentence:

ROS tries to facilitate the operation, development and code reuse of robot systems by organizing the parts of the software in independent packages.

reuse sounds wrong to me and I thought of reusal as being correct. I could only find it on some webpages, but not in an online English dictionary.

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    The noun form of "reuse" is "reuse" (pronounced with an /s/ rather than a /z/).
    – Peter Shor
    Commented Mar 26, 2014 at 21:05
  • In case it's not obvious, for most useful uses of the following words, no, it is not a word.
    – Mitch
    Commented Mar 26, 2014 at 21:43

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"Code reuse" is correct. "Reusal" is not in my unabridged Webster's 3rd New International, page 1942 - reusable, reuse, reused, rev.

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