to change the goal, completion date, recipient, etc., of
We've retargeted the completion of the job
Word origin
[1965–70; re- + target]This word is first recorded in the period 1965–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Coriolis effect, T cell, hired gun, isometric exercise, wraparoundre- is a prefix, occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, used with the meaning“again” or “again and again” to indicate repetition, or with the meaning “back” or“backward” to indicate withdrawal or backward motion. Other words that use the affixre- include: refurbish, regenerate, retrace, retype, revert
Examples of 'retarget' in a sentence
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Functional incorporation of highly specific targeting molecules into the viral capsid can potentially retarget adenoviral infection.
Elisabeth A van Erp, Lyudmila N Kaliberova, Sergey A Kaliberov, David T Curiel 2015, 'Retargeted oncolytic adenovirus displaying a single variable domain of camelid heavy-chain-onlyantibody in a fiber protein', Molecular Therapy: Oncolyticshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2372770516300055. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Tombusviruses depend on subversions of multiple host factors and retarget cellular pathways to support viral replication.
Zhike Feng, Kai Xu, Nikolay Kovalev, Peter D Nagy 2019, 'Recruitment of Vps34 PI3K and enrichment of PI3P phosphoinositide in the viral replicationcompartment is crucial for replication of a positive-strand RNA virus.', PLoS Pathogenshttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6342326?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)