Definition of Retrain

1. Verb. Teach new skills. "We must retrain the linguists who cannot find employment"

Generic synonyms: Develop, Educate, Prepare, Train
Derivative terms: Retraining

2. Verb. Train again. "He is retraining to become an IT worker"
Generic synonyms: Prepare, Train

Definition of Retrain

1. Verb. to train again; especially, to train or study in a new subject or job ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Retrain

1. train [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: train

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrain

retracting
retraction
retraction fibre
retraction of publication
retraction syndrome
retractions
retractive
retractives
retractor
retractors
retracts
retrad
retrahens aurem
retraict
retraicts
retrain (current term)
retrainable
retrained
retrainee
retrainees
retrainer
retrainers
retraining
retrains
retrait
retraite
retraites
retraits
retraitt
retraitts

Literary usage of Retrain

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"When that writing was executed, no agreement was made to extend the loan, or to retrain from calling it in. The Company, by reason of certain advances made ..."

2. South Africa Half-hearted Reform: The Official Response to the Rising Tide by Mary McGovern, Bronwen Manby (1993)
"B.retrain security forces with an emphasis on peacekeeping and protection, rather than on enforcement of outmoded apartheid laws. Although some progress has ..."

3. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1904)
"... retrain from giving it a place in his Natural History of British Insects. Haworth, in 1803, mentions that it occurs " in the month ot June," and that it ..."

4. The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events (1869)
"I cannot retrain from directing your special attention, to the declaration contained in the joint resolution, that kt none of the States whose inhabitants ..."

5. The Greatest Works of the Greatest Authors, Ancient and Modern (1894)
"38)—" And now I say unto you, retrain from these men, and let them alone : for if this counsel or this work be of men it will come to naught." OAKS. ..."

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