Definitions for retools

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retools re·tool

Spelling: [ree-tool]

IPA: /riˈtul/

Retools is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in retools (eloorst).

Definitions for retools

verb (used with object)

1. to replace or rearrange the tools and machinery of (a factory).
2. to reorganize or rearrange, usually for the purpose of updating:

verb (used without object)

1. to replace or rearrange the tools of a factory.
2. to replace the stamping machinery of a factory, especially to make a remodeled product.

Origin of retools

First recorded in 1935-40; re- + tool

Examples for retools

Over the longer term, it needs to retool itself so it can become competitive in the Northeast, Midwest, and California.

They might also retool No Child Left Behind so that it means something wonderfully appropriate from coast to coast.

To produce a new invention, you'd have to retool an entire factory.

The magazine will be reduced to 13 issues per year and will retool itself to become a more general-interest title.

Keep Red at the center, retool everything around him, and let the show run wild.

Apple will save money by not having to retool its production line.

The fiscal cliff showdown is the first test case of whether Obama can retool his vaunted campaign apparatus for his second term.