| 释义 |
reˈskill, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To teach or equip with new skills; spec. to retrain (workers) in the skills required by a modern business. Also transf. Cf. retrain v.
1985Financial Times 9 Apr. 25/3 We recognise the need to..reskill the workforce. 1985Times 12 Dec. 31/1 We have heard a great deal about the importance of training or re-skilling the workforce to revitalize British industry. 1986Daily Tel. 20 May 2/5 We must reskill the workforce, from top management to shop floor. 1989Guardian Weekly 22 Jan. 28/2 The ginger-group..which recently made radical proposals for reskilling and reinvigorating the government machine. 1989N.Y. Times 16 Apr. iii. 31/2 We are caught up in a treadmill of retraining, reskilling, retooling the current work force for job descriptions that are as narrow and as shortsighted as the ones they have just come from.
So reˈskilling vbl. n.
1983N.Y. Times 12 June iv. 19/1 A safer method of managing chronic unemployment is ‘reskilling’. 1988Times 25 May 13/1 The decision due to be made today by the Trades Union Congress exemplifies one of those wider purposes—the ‘reskilling’ of the unemployed at a moment of economic regeneration. |