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  • verb Present participle of retool.
  • noun The fact or process of re-equipping or modifying something.

Etymologies

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From retool +‎ -ing.

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Examples

  • Perhaps this kind of retooling is what they needed.

    covering baseball for USATODAY.com.Pitchers in peril 2000

  • But they also help explain why the phenomenon still appeals and why its retooling is aiding something of a rebirth with the "millennial" generation.

    The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: 2007

  • But they also help explain why the phenomenon still appeals and why its retooling is aiding something of a rebirth with the "millennial" generation.

    From Animal House To Public Service 2007

  • To control spending, the program might give priority to people with healthy habits; no point in retooling the genomes of smokers, risk takers, and addicts of all kinds.

    The Coming Death Shortage 2005

  • To control spending, the program might give priority to people with healthy habits; no point in retooling the genomes of smokers, risk takers, and addicts of all kinds.

    The Coming Death Shortage 2005

  • Sather said he was far from done in retooling the reeling Rangers prior to Tuesday's trade deadline, though Leetch and Kovalev represented the team's most valuable commodities.

    USATODAY.com - Rangers trade Leetch to Maple Leafs 2004

  • He calls his retooling of Malory "a loose, rather than punctilious, translation."

    NYT > Home Page By CHRISTOPHER BENFEY 2011

  • He calls his retooling of Malory "a loose, rather than punctilious, translation."

    NYT > Home Page By CHRISTOPHER BENFEY 2011

  • I think it just speaks to a larger point of what we believe notwithstanding the current environment, there's a long term retooling opportunity out there both domestically and internationally that we think we're taking a lead in and will continue to have ongoing opportunities with.

    Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2008

  • On the other hand, the company was not willing to follow the advice of such experts where doing so would entail a retooling that would cost the corporation more than the price of additional dyes and fabrics.

    The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999

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