retrain

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ train.

Pronunciation

(verb) IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈtɹeɪn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪn
(noun) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːtɹeɪn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Verb

retrain (third-person singular simple present retrains, present participle retraining, simple past and past participle retrained)

(transitive, intransitive) To train again; especially, to train or study in a new subject or job
- 1989 February 25, “Hospital Will Retrain Workers to Save Jobs”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:
  New York City's largest hospital has agreed to retrain some unionized employees whose jobs were to be eliminated under an austerity drive, the hospital and its largest labor union said yesterday.
- 2009 October 7, Sharon McLoone, “Building a Company on Government Contracts”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:
  In 1995, Sharon Brown and her husband, Daryck, founded Environmental and Occupational Safety Services at their kitchen table. The company, which retrains workers in the fields of environmental engineering and cleanup, started to grow by winning contracts from the state of New Jersey and later branched out to do work for the federal government as well.
- 2018, Timothy R. Jennings, The Aging Brain, →ISBN, page 81:
  If we choose to change our diets and consistently eat healthier foods we retrain our brains, and the foods we initially found distasteful will become enjoyable.
- 2021 May 7, Ceylan Yeginsu, “‘It’s Not Quite Like Riding a Bike’: Pilots Get Ready to Fly Again”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:
  The process of retraining a large volume of pilots, who have been idle for different periods of time over the past year is complex and challenging.
- 2023 December 4, Dana Goldstein, “What Costs $1,000 Per Student and Might Help Children Learn to Read?”, in The New York Times‎^[4]:
  For about $1,000 per student annually, the program retrained teachers and administrators and paid for new classroom materials, better aligned to cognitive research.

Translations

to train again

Finnish: kouluttaa uudelleen
French: se recycler, se reconvertir
Italian: riqualificare
Polish: przekwalifikowywać się impf, przekwalifikować się pf
Spanish: capacitar (es)

Noun

retrain (plural retrains)

An instance of training again.
- 2021, Andrew P. McMahon, Machine Learning Engineering with Python, page 221:
  This adds a bit of complexity as it means that our solution should not retrain for every request coming in but be able to determine whether a retrain is worth it for a given request or whether the model is already up to date.

Anagrams

rantier, terrain, trainer