Retool
verb
To change, alter, or revamp something for a new purpose.
The factory had to retool its machinery to produce the new product.
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Technical
verb
To replace or adapt tools or machinery in a factory.
After the modernization plan was confirmed, the company spent millions to retool the manufacturing plant.
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To change, alter, or revamp something for a new purpose.
The factory had to retool its machinery to produce the new product.
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To replace or adapt tools or machinery in a factory.
After the modernization plan was confirmed, the company spent millions to retool the manufacturing plant.
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Broad Application
Not just for physical objects; can also refer to updating skills or methods.
Teachers had to retool their strategies to engage in online education.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Starting Over
Implies improving what already exists rather than rebuilding from scratch.
Our team needs to retool our approach, but our goal remains the same.
Pro Tip 3/3Progress and Innovation
Often used to show adaptation to new trends or technologies.
With the rise of electric cars, auto manufacturers are retooling for the future.
Compare with
modernizerefurbishrehabilitaterenovatereorganizerestructurerevampupgradability
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Where on Earth Will...
Places that offer opportunity, work, particularly professional opportunities, educational opportunities, a decent quality of life, political stability, climate stability, the basic things that you would expect. But we need to be clear that countries need to retrofit themselves, retool themselves, to try and attract
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Where on Earth Will...
Places that offer opportunity, work, particularly professional opportunities, educational opportunities, a decent quality of life, political stability, climate stability, the basic things that you would expect. But we need to be clear that countries need to retrofit themselves, retool themselves, to try and attract
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Jay Inslee
American Politician
Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods.
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Alexandra Kleeman
American Author
I think of workshopping as a way to read your own work through the eyes of others - a scene that you write gets refracted by those around you, and suddenly you have several different readings of it, each with a different momentum for how it might be retooled or reshaped.
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Yves Behar
Swiss Designer
I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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Adam F. Goldberg
American Producer
I've never made a show that goes right on the air and is perfect. People don't remember, but the original 'Goldbergs' pilot was poorly received, and I had to retool that for ABC, where it eventually became a hit.
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Astro Teller
English Scientist
When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.
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Jay Nixon
American Politician
Effective tax credits are used to create jobs and grow our economy. But tax credits that aren't delivering for Missourians must be retooled and reformed.
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Kevin Brady
American Politician
To achieve responsible budget savings, government must be retooled with an effective spending-control system.
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John Gregory Dunne
American Novelist
Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so.
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Jay Inslee
American Politician
Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods.
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Alexandra Kleeman
American Author
I think of workshopping as a way to read your own work through the eyes of others - a scene that you write gets refracted by those around you, and suddenly you have several different readings of it, each with a different momentum for how it might be retooled or reshaped.
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Yves Behar
Swiss Designer
I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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Adam F. Goldberg
American Producer
I've never made a show that goes right on the air and is perfect. People don't remember, but the original 'Goldbergs' pilot was poorly received, and I had to retool that for ABC, where it eventually became a hit.
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Astro Teller
English Scientist
When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.
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Jay Nixon
American Politician
Effective tax credits are used to create jobs and grow our economy. But tax credits that aren't delivering for Missourians must be retooled and reformed.
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Kevin Brady
American Politician
To achieve responsible budget savings, government must be retooled with an effective spending-control system.
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John Gregory Dunne
American Novelist
Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so.
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