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to retrain

to retrain

19 3.1
Learn new skills to change jobs or work in a new area
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈtreɪn/
translation icon : reentrenar
  • 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.

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Examples

  • So my father gave up his job in Africa, gave up his pension and retrained as an English farmer.

  • 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.

  • The other way is to retrain your brain.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Many workers will need to retrain to find new job opportunities after the layoffs.

Synonyms

to train
vsto retrain
1.0

To teach someone skills by practice and help

focuses on learning new skills to change jobs or adapt

How Trained

to requalify
1 6.7
to retrain
19 3.1
to refresh
50 2.8

Surface Forms

retrain infinitive
retrained past
retrained past participle
retraining present participle
retrains third person singular

Morphology

retrain = train (transparent) = re + train

The meaning is a standard and easily recognizable application of 're-' meaning 'again' to the verb 'train'.

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.