verb (used with object)
- to replace or rearrange the tools and machinery of (a factory).
- to reorganize or rearrange, usually for the purpose of updating: to retool the industrial organization.
verb (used without object)
- to replace or rearrange the tools of a factory.
- to replace the stamping machinery of a factory, especially to make a remodeled product.
verb
- to replace, re-equip, or rearrange the tools in (a factory, etc)
- mainly US and Canadian to revise or reorganize
1866, “to shape again with a tool,” from re- “back, again” + tool (v.). Meaning “to furnish a factory with new equipment” is recorded from 1940. Related: Retooled; retooling.