regear

present singular third person regears · participle present regearing · participle past regeared · past regeared · alternative re-gear

1. transitiveTo gear again or anew.

   You and your top people may be able to regear your plant to defense production without outside assistance if you have time and the necessary personnel.

   1951 February, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 5, number 2, page 35

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   The decision to stop publishing scholarly monographs and to regear the organization to the task of commissioning and publishing textbooks required AC1 to adopt a long-term view.

   2005, John Brookshire Thompson, Books In The Digital Age, page 161

2. intransitiveTo prepare again or change one's preparations.

   Germany regeared for the second half: same shape, more control. Mexico had lost some of their vim. And before long the game had turned on its head, with Germany able to keep the ball now, Kroos hitting his range, and Mexico less adept at seizing possession, unable to spring forward with such gusto.

   2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019