Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - retrain

(retrains, retraining, retrained) If you retrain, or if someone retrains you, you learn new skills, especially in order to get a new job. Why not retrain for a job which will make you happier?... Union leaders have called upon the government to help retrain workers. VERB: V, V n • retraining ...measures such as the retraining of the workforce at their place of work... N-UNCOUNT: oft N n