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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
retrain
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A federal program was set up to retrain workers who have lost their jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After a gap for her family she is retraining in Radiology.
▪ All of this implies an urgent, increasing and ongoing need for training and retraining throughout the profession.
▪ Few approaches would produce more positive results on the actual curriculum in schools than review and retraining in this field.
▪ He called for retraining workers for better-paid jobs.
▪ In that case, unions intend to demand significant job retraining programs for displaced clerical staff.
▪ The other basic parts of managing the dream are recruiting meticulously, rewarding, retraining, and reorganizing.
▪ To stop this happening, you have to retrain your bladder to hold larger amounts of urine.
▪ Why do the retraining efforts of self-defeating organizations tend to create at least as many difficulties as they resolve?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
retrain

1905, from re- "back, again" + train (v.). Related: Retrained; retraining.

Wiktionary
retrain

vb. to train again; especially, to train or study in a new subject or job

WordNet
retrain
  1. v. teach new skills; "We must retrain the linguists who cannot find employment"

  2. train again; "He is retraining to become an IT worker"

Usage examples of "retrain".

The rapid ability to replace, retrain, redact, or to replay an entire lifetime of experience through electromnemonics rendered individual minds fungible, modular, and replaceable.

Ted Binghamton represented an undercapitalized company that made excellent low-cost vacuum cleaners that her sales force could peddle door to door with very little retraining.

Ted Binghampton represented an undercapitalized company that made excellent law-cost vacuum cleaners that her sales force could peddle door to door with very little retraining.

After an encounter with Gwen, many waitpersons have opted for less stressful careers, choosing to retrain themselves as air traffic controllers or dental-drill testers.

It was probably going to be one of their restaging areas, for retraining and re-equipping the survivors of the early strikes.

She will be tamer there, and you can retrain her while the grafts are taking.

Along with the United States and Israel, Iran had been backing the Kurds with money and weaponry since 1972 and had retrained Kurdish forces in conventional military operations.

We jumped together and landed together, and that was us qualified as free fallers-until we got to the squadrons and had to retrain completely with square rigs.

For my part, I’d retrained my ears and I can make out what he’s saying most of the time, although the more emotional he gets, the blurrier his syllables become.

And so, Jim, the retraining of left-handed children to become right-handed -- in complete contradiction to the orders the poor kids' brains are issuing to their muscles -- badly bollixes up their central nervous systems, and, among other bad outcomes, is the direct and only cause of habitual stuttering.

This treatment, the first of many, was supposed to start retraining his brain to reduce beta wave production, bringing his rhythms in line with the normal range.

In all the talk about the need for continuing education, in all the popular discussions of retraining, there is an assumption that man's potentials for re-education are unlimited.

Sherman had been doing animal experimentations on memory, on the retention of skills once learned, of retraining time when such skills were forgotten.

He had mastered feistier beasts to the saddle, and he must-if he wished to Hold-prove equally capable at retraining.

No press release was ever issued expressing compassionate concern for the unemployed mad scientists of Wyvern or announcing a retraining program, and since many of them resided on base and had little community involvement, no locals wondered where they had gone.