regear

See also: re-gear

English edit

regear (third-person singular simple present regears, present participle regearing, simple past and past participle regeared)

(transitive) To gear again or anew.
- 1951 February, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 5, number 2, page 35:
  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.
- 2005, John Brookshire Thompson, Books In The Digital Age, page 161:
  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.
(intransitive) To prepare again or change one's preparations.
- 2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 August 2019:
  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.