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re⋅tool

[ree-tool]
–verb (used with object)
1. to replace or rearrange the tools and machinery of (a factory).
2. to reorganize or rearrange, usually for the purpose of updating: to retool the industrial organization.
–verb (used without object)
3. to replace or rearrange the tools of a factory.
4. to replace the stamping machinery of a factory, esp. to make a remodeled product.

Origin:
1935–40; re- + tool


re⋅tool⋅a⋅ble, adjective
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re·tool   (rē-tōōl')   
v.   re·tooled, re·tool·ing, re·tools

v.   tr.
  1. To fit out (a factory, for example) with a new set of machinery and tools for making a different product.

  2. To revise and reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating or improving: had to retool the city's economy.

v.   intr.
To fit out a factory with a new set of machinery and tools.
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Word Origin & History

retool 
1866, "to shape again with a tool," from re- "back, again" + verb form of tool (q.v.). Meaning "to furnish a factory with new equipment" is recorded from 1940.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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