verb
- to teach someone new skills for a different job or to update their existing skills
- to train again or differently
Examples
- The company will retrain workers whose jobs were eliminated by automation.
- She decided to retrain as a nurse after losing her factory job.
- The government offers programs to retrain unemployed workers.
- He had to retrain his dog to stop jumping on visitors.
- The athlete needed to retrain her muscles after the injury.
- Many coal miners are being retrained for jobs in renewable energy.
- The coach will retrain the team using new techniques.