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retool

[ ree-tool ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to replace or rearrange the tools and machinery of (a factory).
  2. to reorganize or rearrange, usually for the purpose of updating:

    to retool the industrial organization.



verb (used without object)

  1. to replace or rearrange the tools of a factory.
  2. to replace the stamping machinery of a factory, especially to make a remodeled product.

retool

/ ːˈٳː /

verb

  1. to replace, re-equip, or rearrange the tools in (a factory, etc)
  2. to revise or reorganize
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·ٴǴDZa· adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of retool1

First recorded in 1935–40; re- + tool
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He retools the perspective to give readers access to the trees’ deep time, through which human life is possible.

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Fresh off a Super Bowl with the Philadelphia Eagles, Mekhi Becton has the Chargers head coach already dreaming of what a retooled offensive front could look like.

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He continued that Canada can sustain an auto industry with the US tariffs provided the government and business community work to "reimagine" and "retool" the industry.

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He said the tariffs "represent a grave danger to a UK car manufacturing sector in transition" as firms retool factories for electric vehicles.

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"We can see what the Russian economy is being retooled to do," observes Mr Bond, "and it ain't peace."

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