Retool

//riːˈtuːl// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To adjust; to optimize; to rebuild. transitive

    "He decided it was time to retool last year's marketing brochure."

  2. 2
    provide (a workshop or factory) with new tools wordnet
  3. 3
    revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving wordnet

Synonyms

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instrumentmachinemillreconstitutereconstructreorganize

Example

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"We’ve got to retool our system so that modern families and modern businesses can thrive. And let me be clear, this is not about big government, or expanding some fictional welfare-and-food-stamp state, the 47 percent mooching off the government. It is accounting for the realities of how people live now, today -- the necessities of a 21st century economy."

Etymology

From re- + tool.

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