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to retrain
01
to teach someone new skills or knowledge for improvement in the current job, or to enable them to work in a different field
Transitive: to retrain sb | to retrain sb in a skill
Examples
The company decided to retrain its employees in digital marketing to adapt to the evolving industry trends.
02
to undergo training again to acquire new skills or adapt to a different role or job
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
retrain
3rd person singular
retrains
Present participle
retraining
Past simple
retrained
Past participle
retrained
Examples
As industries evolve, it 's essential for workers to retrain and acquire new skills to remain competitive.
Lexical Tree
retrain
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