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1856 J. Keenan in Rep. Commissioners National Educ. Irel. No. 22. II. 88 Many of them, although trained, never before or after training taught a school, and some of them were re-trained and counted in the Ordinary Class.

1924 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 32 666 It was cheaper to retrain cripples for self-supporting work than to maintain them in idleness.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) viii. 170 Convalescence is the time when..reparative processes are active and the tissues are being re-trained to withstand the wear and tear of normal life.

1977 P. Strevens New Orientations Teaching Eng. p. vii Helping to train and re-train teachers.

2008 Evening Herald (Plymouth) (Nexis) 1 Oct. 14 A4E began 20 years ago retraining redundant steel workers in Yorkshire. Now it's a successful international business.

1930 W. E. Wickenden in C. A. Beard Toward Civilization xiii. 266 Professional workers as well as hand laborers must expect to retrain at intervals.

1967 Times 19 Sept. 11/1 There will always be people who want part-time further education—those who missed basic schooling, those who want to retrain for new jobs.

1978 J. W. Crawford Discourse 8 He [sc. the Red Cross Knight] faces problems that sometimes almost conquer, so he finds it necessary to retrain, to study, to reflect, to do penance.

1998 S. Faulks Charlotte Gray i. v. 47 He would need to retrain to fly bigger planes, some of which required plain muscular strength.

2007 Eve July 103 I was always playing mother hen to my friends and my dream was to retrain as a therapist.