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retooling

UK/ɹiːˈtuːlɪŋ/

retooling is the present participle and gerund of retool.

Meaning of retool

Verb

retool (third-person singular simple present retools, present participle retooling, simple past and past participle retooled)

  1. (transitive) To adjust; to optimize; to rebuild.
    • He decided it was time to retool last year's marketing brochure.

Noun

retooling (plural retoolings)

  1. The fact or process of re-equipping or modifying something.
    • the Physiocrats' emphasis on breaking the shackles under which the economy was labouring appealed to the duke, whose retooling of the state presupposed a reinvigoration of the economy which would allow the government to go to war without bringing the country to penury.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 258

Forms of retooling

pluralretoolings

Origin of retooling

From retool + -ing.

Questions about retooling

What does retooling mean?
Retooling means the fact or process of re-equipping or modifying something.
What is retooling the present participle and gerund of?
Retooling is the present participle and gerund of retool.
What part of speech is retooling?
Retooling is a noun.
How do you pronounce retooling?
Retooling is pronounced /ɹiːˈtuːlɪŋ/ (UK).
What is the plural of retooling?
The plural of retooling is retoolings.

Words near retooling in the dictionary

  1. retool
  2. retoolable
  3. retooled
  4. retooler
  5. retoolers
  6. retooling
  7. retoolings
  8. retools
  9. retooth
  10. retoothed
  11. retoother

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retooling (page history and authors); retool (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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