refresher
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4.1
- noun
- /rɪˈfrɛʃər/
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curso de actualización
- Before the exam, he decided to take a refresher course to reinforce his knowledge of the material.
- refresher course
- refresher training
- annual refresher
And just doing little refreshers brings a lot of that stuff back.
- And just doing little refreshers brings a lot of that stuff back.
- Now, just as a brief refresher, because I think we always need this refresher.
- But there is a little bit of news here as a quick sort of refresher.
- So if you don't mind, what I'd like you to do is give some people a refresher on what we think we know about them, where the origins are, etcetera.
- Or, if you're already an old hand at it, do some refreshers.
- Now, just as a little refresher, John Stuart Mill says that there are not just quantitative differences in pleasures and pains, but there are qualitative some.
- So now he's got to turn around again and I get to get a refresher course, you know, And this time he's spreading.
- So going back and telling them again is a good refresher to me is because I, I do know I'm inside out.
Examples
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Maybe you need a refresher course.
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I'm taking a refresher course in philosophy.
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In any case, here is a refresher course.
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Would you like to run a refresher course?
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Maybe we should run that refresher course.
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Guess it's time for a refresher course.
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But let me give you a little refresher course on maritime conduct.
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Many of the volunteers expressed a desire to attend annual refresher courses.
Academic text (2006) -
The work had its origin as a refresher course for students preparing for examinations.
Academic text (1990) -
Whenever we attend family reunions, the uncles give me a quick refresher course in who's officially dead and who's not.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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3.4
A short course that teaches important skills quickly
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3.6
A short course that reviews and updates what people already know
To teach or train someone again to refresh their skills
Compounds
How Intensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Refresher comes from re- 'again' and fresh 'new' or 'cool', so it means 'make fresh again'. A refresher course 'makes your knowledge fresh again', helping you remember or learn recent changes.