Definition of "retrained" [retrained]

• Simple past tense and past participle of retrain. (verb)

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• "Why should we accede to the notion that we accept a brutal economic system that requires millions of people to be "retrained" -- which is, at the very least, given the circumstances of the retraining, a humiliating and degrading experience."
• "What happens when you do everything right and your job is outsourced or eliminated and you go into hock getting "retrained" and STILL can't find anything because you don't have practical experience, or you're not pretty anymore, or they think you're going to cost too much in health care?"
• "Police officers to be 'retrained' after arrest injury"