retool

[ree-tool]

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.

   to retool the industrial organization.

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.

retool

/ riːˈtuːl /

verb

1. to replace, re-equip, or rearrange the tools in (a factory, etc)

2. to revise or reorganize

Other Word Forms

• retoolable adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of retool¹

First recorded in 1935–40; re- + tool

Example Sentences

Cracker Barrel terminated Prophet as a consultant this month and retooled leadership.

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India, whose growing economy needs more oil, has resisted the U.S. push because it has retooled its supply chain since the Ukraine war to rely on discounted Russian crude.

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It is more profitable for them to manufacture familiar gas-powered SUVs and pickups than to pursue new supply chains and retool their lines.

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Cracker Barrel also said Thursday that it is retooling the company’s leadership structure.

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Instead, the company has retooled that effort to design a lighter and more aerodynamic wing for a new aircraft.

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