retrain
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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(tr) to teach (someone) a new skill so that he or she can do a job or find employment
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(intr) to learn a new skill with a view to doing a job or finding employment
Other Word Forms
- retrainable adjective
Etymology
Origin of retrain
Example Sentences
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“AI isn’t replacing one specific skill. It’s a general substitute for cognitive work…Whatever you retrain for, it’s improving at that too,” AI investor Matt Shumer wrote in a viral X post two weeks ago.
Veterans of the global war on terror, the special forces were retraining for Arctic warfare.
A former lawyer who had retrained as a baker at a trendy cafe in the Black Sea city, he joined the Ukrainian army a year later.
From Barron's
A New York Fed survey found that companies using AI are more likely to retrain workers than to cut headcount.
From Barron's
When factories automated in the 1990s, an assembly-line employee could be retrained as an office worker.
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