Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To train or undergo training again.
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- verb to
train again; especially, totrain orstudy in a newsubject orjob
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- verb teach new skills
- verb train again
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Examples
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All the kids in my generation who trained in Computer Science, one of the most technical degrees you can get, had their $60-100K programmer jobs outsourced to India & China for $20-40K and they had to "retrain" to be service industry employees.
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The US Chamber types have a glib response – - displaced skilled Americans should stop whining and "retrain" themselves for a different job or profession.
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The IFI is affiliated with James Dobson's Focus on the Family, which fights to "retrain" the "evil" of homosexuality.
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The main MPCI rebel group meanwhile held a giant meeting in their headquarters of Bouake and said it would rely on their operations chief, Colonel Michel Gueu, to "retrain" the new Ivorian army.
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The guy suggested remedial tuition to "retrain" my brain.
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We must promote education and training policies which will provide all Canadians with the opportunity to "retrain" and put at their disposal the tools required to domesticate technological progress and benefit from it.
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Dr. Gary Small of UCLA, for example, said that he sometimes tries to "retrain" his technology-addled students:
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She also weighed in Facebook's dominant position and the willingness of its users to "retrain" themselves.
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She also weighed in Facebook's dominant position and the willingness of its users to "retrain" themselves.
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It may take a while to "retrain" to sleep differently, but can be learned fairly easily and after a short time.
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