retooling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of retool

plural retoolings

1. The fact or process of re-equipping or modifying something.

   the Physiocrats' emphasis on breaking the shackles under which the economy was labouring appealed to the duke, whose retooling of the state presupposed a reinvigoration of the economy which would allow the government to go to war without bringing the country to penury.

   2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 258