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retargeting

retargeting is the present participle and gerund of retarget.

Meaning of retarget

Verb

retarget (third-person singular simple present retargets, present participle retargeting or (rare) retargetting, simple past and past participle retargeted or (rare) retargetted)

  1. (transitive) To target again.
    • The new marketing campaign will retarget past customers.
  2. (transitive) To change the targeting of (a weapon etc.).
    • “We will have to retarget our missiles on the objects that we think threaten our national security,” he said.2008 February 15, C. J. Chivers, “President Putin Talks of the Future as Premier”, in New York Times
  3. (transitive) To adapt so as to run on a different platform.

Noun

retargeting (countable and uncountable, plural retargetings)

  1. An instance of something being retargeted.

Forms of retargeting

pluralretargetings

Questions about retargeting

What does retargeting mean?
Retargeting means an instance of something being retargeted.
What is retargeting the present participle and gerund of?
Retargeting is the present participle and gerund of retarget.
What part of speech is retargeting?
Retargeting is a noun.
What is the plural of retargeting?
The plural of retargeting is retargetings.

Words near retargeting in the dictionary

  1. retargetability
  2. retargetable
  3. retargeted
  4. retargeter
  5. retargeters
  6. retargeting
  7. retargetings
  8. retargets
  9. retargetted
  10. retargetting
  11. retariff

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retargeting (page history and authors); retarget (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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