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retrain - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
transitive & intransitive verb
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verb train again; especially, to train or study in a new subject or job
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
verb verb
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All the kids in my generation who trained in Computer Science, one of the most technical degrees you can get, had their $60-100K programmer jobs outsourced to India & China for $20-40K and they had to "retrain " to be service industry employees.
Jonathan Tasini: The Great Retraining Lie 2008
The US Chamber types have a glib response – - displaced skilled Americans should stop whining and "retrain " themselves for a different job or profession.
Immigration for Dummies 2007
The IFI is affiliated with James Dobson's Focus on the Family, which fights to "retrain " the "evil" of homosexuality.
john amaechi: a milestone 2007
The main MPCI rebel group meanwhile held a giant meeting in their headquarters of Bouake and said it would rely on their operations chief, Colonel Michel Gueu, to "retrain " the new Ivorian army.
ANC Daily News Briefing 2003
The guy suggested remedial tuition to "retrain " my brain.
sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2001
We must promote education and training policies which will provide all Canadians with the opportunity to "retrain " and put at their disposal the tools required to domesticate technological progress and benefit from it.
Setting the Agenda for a Knowledge-Based Economy 1989
Dr. Gary Small of UCLA, for example, said that he sometimes tries to "retrain " his technology-addled students:
All Stories | The New York Observer 2010
She also weighed in Facebook's dominant position and the willingness of its users to "retrain " themselves.
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. Mac Slocum 2010
She also weighed in Facebook's dominant position and the willingness of its users to "retrain " themselves.
Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0 2010
It may take a while to "retrain " to sleep differently, but can be learned fairly easily and after a short time.
Somervell County Salon 2010
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