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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rethink
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a radical rethink (=when you think about a plan or idea again in a very different way)
▪ The Conservative Party leader called for a radical rethink of economic policy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
force
▪ Using modern forensic science techniques on original evidence, the West Midlands force have been forced to rethink their view of events.
need
▪ Its premise, that a robust global economy is a prerequisite for healthy local societies, needs to be rethought.
▪ These are the places where any community needs to begin in rethinking schools.
▪ We may need to rethink and redefine what is provided, by whom and how.
▪ I believe we need to radically rethink the whole way we consume energy.
▪ We will need to rethink the role of science in public affairs.
▪ However, the lift industry cliché that a lift is a lift needs to be rethought for hotels.
▪ Thirdly, I will conclude that the way we approach and use research perhaps needs to be rethought.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Perhaps it's time to rethink our priorities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A series of developments over the last several years has resulted in some rethinking.
▪ But by rethinking our approach to haircare, we can keep looking younger for longer.
▪ But I believe that children need to be inducted into the tradition of reliving and rethinking moments of their lives.
▪ Depending upon the degree of estrangement, many parents of work-inhibited students may benefit from rethinking existing patterns of communication.
▪ He finished his prayers, rapidly rethought his assumptions, and woke up Jesuit colleagues in several different time zones.
▪ Its premise, that a robust global economy is a prerequisite for healthy local societies, needs to be rethought.
▪ The need to rethink our concept of the research library in this wider information environment will be discussed.
▪ This made it possible to rethink multiculturalism's psychological interpretation of racism as individual prejudice in more structural and politicized terms.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rethink

1700, from re- "back, again" + think (v.). Related: Rethinking.

Wiktionary
rethink

n. The act of thinking again about something. vb. To think again about a problem.

WordNet
rethink

  1. n. thinking again about a choice previously made; "he had second thoughts about his purchase" [syn: reconsideration, second thought, afterthought]

  2. v. change one's mind; "He rethought his decision to take a vacation"

  3. [also: rethought]

Wikipedia
Rethink (record label)

Re:think was an imprint label of under Universal Music Group. It signed several acts, including This World Fair, The Colour, Sarah Masen and Switchfoot. Re:think is well known for supporting the ONE Campaign as well as the lowercase people Justice Fund.

Usage examples of "rethink".

It would seem that in the second half of the fifties, Tolkien had been rethinking the pronominal system.

The value of writing that paragraph lay, first, in giving her proof that she could do it, and, second, in giving her a benchmark for rethinking and revising the rest of her book.

Lissianna on his return from Mexico if they untied him now, then promptly rethought the decision.

In V8 Hyenas and haunchy drophead Acapulcos they cruise the road-margined seas, gunning to the medical zone for their daily DNA boosters and plasma rethinks.

She dropped her forehead against the lichens and rethought what had gone between them.

Corkoran actually caught himself wondering if perhaps, maybe, he should rethink his moonshot methods.

Pordand, Oregon, teacher named Bill Bigelow, who helped put together Rethinking Schools, took a year off from his regular job to tour the country in 1992, giving workshops to other teachers, so that they could begin to tell those truths about the Columbus experience that were omitted from the traditional books and class curricula.

The kid jabbed for time, for an opportunity to rethink the changing context.

Hawking at Cambridge asks awesome questions about quasars, pulsars and black holes, and I believe we must rethink all our basic concepts.

Ideational Structures, the Relativity Rethink Priorities Council, Field Experiment Number One, the Affiliated Friends of the Logicon Project, the Chinese-American Science Sodality and other model-building organizations will either become defunct or will be restructured beyond present recognition.

The mirror looked on, quite unimpressed, as I completed a series of rethinks in the hired glare of the windowless bathroom.

What occult ablutions, what bleak rethinks, took place among all this lino and iron?

She had run through various scenarios, including one in which he had rethought his offer to help.

Claresta employed for heavy labor, Reginald rethought the insult that was about to pass his lips.

And if she got him to break away to rethink, it would use up hours of time .