Crossword clues for retool
retool
- Prepare for a factory upgrade
- Modernize, as machinery
- Make more efficient, perhaps
- Freshen up your plants
- Come out with a modified version
- Upgrade, as a factory
- Upgrade the plant
- Upgrade the equipment of
- Update, industrially speaking
- Update, as the plant
- Update the workshop
- Update the factory equipment
- Update the automation
- Update machinery
- Update factory machinery
- Update at the factory
- Prepare for next year's model, perhaps
- Prepare for new model production
- Overhaul the plant
- Overhaul the machinery
- Modernize, as equipment
- Modernize machinery
- Make equipment changes
- Change dies
- Change a lot
- Alter to make more suitable
- Upgrade the machinery
- Adapt machinery to new needs
- Prepare for the new model year
- Improve a plant
- Change over at a factory
- Update a factory
- Modernize, as a factory
- Overhaul, as an assembly line
- Modernize the plant
- Prepare for next year's models, say
- Introduce robots, say
- Install new machinery
- Upgrade the factory
- Get new equipment
- Equip anew, as a machine shop
- Change implements and dies
- Provide new equipment robber picked up
- Improve, in a way
- Update, in a way
- Update, as machinery
- Update, as a factory
- Update the machinery
- Modernize a factory
- Gear up for a new model
- Upgrade, perhaps
- Upgrade, as machinery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (cx transitive English) To adjust; to optimize; to rebuild.
WordNet
v. revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving; "We must retool the town's economy" [syn: revise]
provide (a workshop or factory) with new tools
Wikipedia
A Retool is a toy that has been created by modifying an existing mold to give it new features. This enables companies to create new toys without producing an entirely new mold from scratch.
The Transformers toy lines have often made use of this design choice, in addition to Repaints and Redecos, in order to create new characters or new versions of characters by giving them different features such as brand-new heads.
Usage examples of "retool".
The shift of a percentage point or two in the approval rating for a product can cause us to retool a factory or to scrap a line altogether.
Industry, which had wiped out its debts in the inflation, borrowed billions to retool and to rationalize its productive processes.
He retooled the staff so that it could be separated in the middle by a quick twist.
Admiral Wuht provided the refugees some cover, even as the orbital cities retooled for military production.
A scaffolding of carbon is built around her, and she is shoved inside the retooled purge-ball, held in a perfect darkness, waiting alone until an identical scaffold is stacked beside her.
With all that shit breaking loose, a lot of buildings were retooling to cope.
Selonian refugees, leaving Corellia while they still were considered first-class citizens, mingled with dockworkers of half a dozen other species retooling the civilian shipyards for military use.
In that latter event his demands could be excessive, and if rejected, the cost of retooling and loss of supply would plunge many of the firms into disastrous financial territory.
In that latter event his demands could be excessive, and if rejected, the cost of retooling and loss of supply would plunge many of the firms into disastrous financial territory.
In fact, the design has been completed, the assembly lines retooled.
Squires, August retooled every play to make certain there was a crew to assist with the exit strategy.
Even should industry be as willing to go along with us as labor is, a vast amount of retooling will be necessary before we can start fabricating the components for the tunnels.
The shift of a percentage point or two in the approval rating for a product can cause us to retool a factory or to scrap a line altogether.
Some outlanders, particularly the roamers, traveled around in retooled predark vehicles.