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vb. (context transitive English) To cause to perform a new task; to change the work or mission of.
Usage examples of "retask".
Even then, the most they might get was an occasional minor retask to look at something in particular.
Plus, I did retask some of its vents for use as guns—so it can’t use those vents unless someone engages them from the weapons console I added.
Meanwhile, we retask reconnaissance satellites to scan every possible base for their presence.
I’ve retasked some repair nannies and sent them in, so they should complete their work in about an hour or so.
They'd nailed dozens of ICBMs in flight, missiles we'd retasked as antisatellite weapons, then fried the silos those rockets launched from.
Probably they were retasking all the Keyholes for just that reason, but they still had to be in the right basket.
We're redirecting what assets we have on the ground to start looking for it in both countries as well as retasking satellite assets to search for it.
You may receive classified requests for retasking which you will then pass on with the minimum possible discussion.
Sergei, as science advisor to President Chernykov, had arranged the retasking of the Russian space agency's orbiting X-ray observatory.