to retrain
- verb
- /ˌriːˈtreɪn/
- The National Army will be retrained with technical support from France, Britain, and Portugal.
- retrain employees
- retrain workers
- retrain teachers
The other way is to retrain your brain.
- The other way is to retrain your brain.
- It's in those moments you must retrain your mind to think differently.
- So it needs to be affordable to companies to retrain the truckers.
- And today's message is that it's never too late to retrain behaviors, thoughts, patterns, and habits.
- So my father gave up his job in Africa, gave up his pension and retrained as an English farmer.
- And in reading the book and doing the daily lessons, we literally retrain our attitudinal muscles.
- And so it is something where you're, you're constantly having to work your dog and challenge your dog, retrain your dog, correct your dog.
- Fortunately, in the past these changes tended to be somewhat gradual, as displaced workers often struggle to retrain for new types of work.
- Like do those things that do not condition your brain to lose focus quickly and you will retrain your brain to pay attention for longer periods of time focus, right.
- And I got myself retrained as an X-ray technician and just developed a passion for medical imaging.
- So it'll begin to retrain the negativity bias that is so hurtful and so common in people.
- So starting your day off celebrating some wins retrains and reprograms your brain to find the victories, even if they're little victories.
- The problem will will be to retrain people and the biggest problem of all will be on the global level, not on the national level.
- So what you're doing to your mind right now is you are retraining, you're trying to reprogram and you're showing your mind who is the boss basically.
- And it actually it, it helped me retrain my brain to not be in that anxious state when I was speaking, speaking to people and presenting, which was incredible.
Examples
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So my father gave up his job in Africa, gave up his pension and retrained as an English farmer.
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The CSTEC organization helps tremendously in retraining people for other employment activities.
Academic text (1996) -
Most people are not going to be able to retrain for something that will be relevant.
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The other way is to retrain your brain.
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The problem will will be to retrain people and the biggest problem of all will be on the global level, not on the national level.
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Too little has been done to retrain workers who have lost their jobs to outsourcing.
Academic text (2007) -
I thought maybe I'd retrain for something at the community college, like a licensed practical nurse.
Fiction book (1994) -
Fortunately, in the past these changes tended to be somewhat gradual, as displaced workers often struggle to retrain for new types of work.
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As the nature of work changes, we need to be ready to reskill, to retrain, to adapt to new technologies and to take up new opportunities.
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Many workers will need to retrain to find new job opportunities after the layoffs.
Synonyms
To teach someone skills by practice and help
How Trained
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Retrain comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and the verb train meaning 'to teach' or 'to practice'. So, to retrain is to 'teach again' or learn new skills, often to change jobs or adapt to new situations.