| 词汇 | retool |
| 释义 | retool verb (also UKre-tool)uk /ˌriːˈtuːl/ us /ˌriːˈtuːl/ [ T ] to change something in order to improve it or make it more suitable for a particular purpose: Politics is being retooled for a new audience. We need to help workers retrain and retool their careers in areas of stable employment. Even more changes are expected next year, as businesses re-tool their operations. [ T ] to provide a factory, industry, vehicle, etc. with new equipment or tools in order to improve it or make it more suitable for a particular purpose: We should be retooling our factories to build solar panels and solar electricity. In the retooled aeroplane of tomorrow, there will be a host of new security devices. We need to re-tool the motor industry, reconfigure the power grid, and convert buildings into power plants. [ I ] (of a factory, industry, etc.) to get newer or different equipment in order to improve or become more suitable for a particular purpose: She said industries must retool for an innovation economy. The money will help our auto companies re-tool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in this country. [ I ] to get new skills or experience that are more suitable for a particular job, purpose, etc. than the skills or experience that you already have: Many students are retooling by getting more training in fields such as health care or computers. Changing about-face about-turn alterable altered alternate churn disturb make an about-turn make something into something malleable meta metamorphose morph pervert rollback rotation rotational sanitization semi-domesticated transcribe You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Giving, providing and supplying Replacing and exchanging Learning & knowing retool | Business Englishretool verb uk /ˌriːˈtuːl/us [ I or T ] PRODUCTION to replace the machines and equipment used in a factory: July is a slower month because many plants shut down to retool. retool a plant/factoryThe auto industry should receive 'substantial incentives' to retool factories to develop more fuel-efficient vehicles, such as hybrids. [ T ] MANAGEMENT USinformal to organize something in a new or different way in order to improve it: The administration could have retooled the tax system to discourage consumption. We have been forced to retool our business strategy in light of global realities. retoolingnoun[ C or U ] PRODUCTION The new model doesn't require a complete retooling of existing assembly lines. Examples of retoolretool Southern rulers would have to retool not only the party but also state institutions if they wanted to maintain power over their polities. And, as the existence of this journal attests, intellectual history has retooled to take seriously the contexts for ideas and intellectual movements. Because the car was supplied by the contracting railroad, it was usually of the cheapest possible construction, often being a retooled wooden freight car. We cannot retool any factory to provide them with fresh employment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He can retool his factory and produce completely different lines. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The cost of retooling their machines is very great. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we took it over, we should have to retool the whole thing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I refer to regulation that is stable and predictable, and allows business to adapt, with sufficient time to retool to meet improving standards over time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No group of workers could be more important to us, if our aim is to retrain and retool, and to rebuild our manufacturing base. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Investment incentives could be reintroduced to help companies to retool, which would help the machine tool industry and equipment suppliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In this case industry will be highly concentrated, and with changing techniques and trade demands it may be necessary for industry completely to retool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In order to make themselves more competitive, factories in my constituency must go abroad to find the machinery with which to retool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would give us a year or 18 months in which to retool, rejig and retrain in order to keep the work force occupied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By targeting this funding, we can retool our economies to drive out of recession. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English They left it rehabilitated, rebuilt, re-equipped and retooled. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of retool These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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