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re-skill

re-skill is the alternative form of reskill.

Meaning of reskill

Verb

reskill (third-person singular simple present reskills, present participle reskilling, simple past and past participle reskilled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To retrain workers in the skills needed by modern business, especially after redundancy.
    • In the existing work force also, not only among the new entrants, we are caught up in a treadmill of retraining, reskilling, retooling the current work force for job descriptions that are as narrow and as shortsighted as the ones they have just come from.1989 April 16, Joseph Michalak, Stephen S. Pickering, Louis Uchitelle, quoting Harris L. Sussman, “Experts Divided On Jobs in the 90's”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. (ambitransitive) To learn additional skills.
    • To maintain relevance and sustain marketable skills, IT professionals must reskill and reskill and reskill.2015, Richard Eleftherios Boyatzis, Kylie Rochford, Scott N. Taylor, editors, The Impact of Shared Vision on Leadership, Engagement, Organizational Citizenship and Coaching, page 145

Forms of re-skill

third-person singular presentre-skills
present participlere-skilling
past participlere-skilled
pastre-skilled

Questions about re-skill

What is re-skill the alternative form of?
Re-skill is the alternative form of reskill.

Words near re-skill in the dictionary

  1. re-sited
  2. re-sites
  3. re-siting
  4. re-sizable
  5. re-sizeable
  6. re-skill
  7. re-skilled
  8. re-skilling
  9. re-skills
  10. re-sniff
  11. re-sniffed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-skill (page history and authors); reskill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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