retooling

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retooling

/ɹiːˈtuːlɪŋ/ UK

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From retool + -ing.

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of retool

noun retoolings

The fact or process of re-equipping or modifying something. the Physiocrats' emphasis on breaking the shackles under which the economy was labouring appealed to the duke, whose retooling of the state presupposed a reinvigoration of the economy which would allow the government to go to war without bringing the country to penury.

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@misc{retooling_2026,
  title = {retooling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/retooling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}