retraining

retraining is the present participle and gerund of retrain.

Meaning of retrain

retrain (third-person singular simple present retrains, present participle retraining, simple past and past participle retrained)

(ambitransitive) To train again; especially, to train or study in a new subject or job
- New York City's largest hospital has agreed to retrain some unionized employees whose jobs were to be eliminated under an austerity drive, the hospital and its largest labor union said yesterday.1989 February 25, “Hospital Will Retrain Workers to Save Jobs”, in The New York Times

retraining (countable and uncountable, plural retrainings)

New or different training, or training in a new field.
- The number of neural network retrainings in the experiments with buffer length 100 varied between 3 and 7, whereas it varied between 5 and 14 in the case of buffer length 50.2000, Ian Cloete, Jacek M. Zurada, Knowledge-based Neurocomputing, page 354
- The legislation, which passed both chambers of Congress this month by wide margins, essentially reauthorizes a Clinton-era law that provided money to states and cities for job retraining.2014 July 22, David S. Joachim, “Obama Signs New Job-Training Law”, in The New York Times

plural	retrainings

What does retraining mean?: Retraining means new or different training, or training in a new field.
What is retraining the present participle and gerund of?: Retraining is the present participle and gerund of retrain.
What part of speech is retraining?: Retraining is a noun.
What is the plural of retraining?: The plural of retraining is retrainings.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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