RETOOL Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

retool

verb

Definition of retool

as in to rejigger

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Recent Examples of retool Ford will invest $500 million in its Windsor operations and $400 million to retool the Oakville Assembly complex. — Jamie L. Lareau, Freep.com, 20 July 2026 Client travel funds dried up during the 2008 financial crisis, and of course many advisors were forced to either close, sell or retool their businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. — Jacques Ledbetter, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 Politicians on both sides of the aisle will have to retool their approaches accordingly. — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 23 June 2026 Add in the transfer-portal impact, in which colleges can retool and restock without even signing prep prospects — and landing a full ride has never been more of a daunting task. — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 11 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for retool

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Companies take time to rejigger their workflows and update their systems.

— Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
States now have a freer hand to rejigger boundaries of voting districts at all levels of government.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of rejigger

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The Slate Truck is a rear-wheel-drive EV with a 205-mile range that can be transformed from a two-seat pickup into a five-seat SUV.

— Beth Livesay, AJC.com, 21 Aug. 2026
The backstory Once upon a time, there was a Spanish family blessed with a talent for finding historic buildings and transforming them into hotels that anyone who admires beauty and nature would want to visit.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of transform

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This has vast implications beyond motorsport, promising to revolutionize industries from manufacturing to logistics by enabling faster, more reliable real-time decision-making directly at the point of action.

— Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Rahma has great admiration for the way YouTube has revolutionized the TV landscape.

— Partner Content, Variety, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of revolutionize

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But the filmmaker’s imagination transfigures personal history into something not of this world, wholly original, and uniquely demented.

— Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
Altman is the defendant in the case brought by Musk, who’s claiming that OpenAI illegally betrayed the company’s non-profit founding by transfiguring into a for-profit company last year.

— Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 7 May 2026

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