retrainingn.
/ˌriːˈtreɪnɪŋ/, U.S. /riˈtreɪnɪŋ/ The action or process of being trained again, esp. in order to learn new skills required to do a different job.
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retraining1840
retread course1943
1840 Educ. Mag. 2 255 It might be found desirable by the managers of a school to send their permanent master for instruction to the Society, where he might undergo a salutary process of re-training.
1852 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. London 15 43 To have good preventive schools for the training of pauper children, is the great practical step towards obtaining good reformatory schools for the re-training of criminal children.
1920 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 14 676 The bills making available for industrial and other cripples the same advantages for retraining and rehabilitation as are afforded to soldiers wounded in the line of duty.
1940 Economist 24 Feb. 322/1 No decisions have been reached about the scale and conditions of dilution in general, female employment in particular, and retraining.
1997 N.Y. Mag. 4 Aug. 30/2 Most SVA continuing-ed students come for retraining after years of hand-done art projects.
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1919 Vocational Rehabilit. Ser. (Federal Board Vocational Educ.) No. 27 13 [They were] enabled to go into business for themselves and make a financial success of it, through a retraining course in shoe repairing.
1964 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 11 Jan. (1970) 39 He had been out of work for two years and then he heard about the retraining program.
1977 Whitaker's Almanack 980/1 Under the rules of the Fund the Commission can assist in training and retraining schemes by reimbursing 50 per cent. of the cost financed by a public authority.
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Jan. a27/4 Some economists and elected officials suggest that all we need is a robust retraining effort for laid-off workers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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