retread
pronunciation
How to pronounce retread in British English:
UK [ˈri:tred]
How to pronounce retread in American English:
US [riˈtrɛd]
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- Noun:
- a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads
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- Verb:
- use again in altered form
- give new treads to (a tire)
Word Origin
- retread (v.)
- "to put a new tread on (a tire)," 1908, from re- "back, again" (see re-) + tread (q.v.). The noun is attested from 1914; in World War I it was Australian slang for "a re-enlisted soldier."
Example
- 1. Nanchuan city retread tires innovative shoe factory factory .
- 2. Dat already has a presence in china , having opened a retread and distribution center in jinjiang , fujian province , last november .
- 3. Management is an active discipline during the history of science studies , its theories retread continuously and emerge in endlessly .
- 4. The problems in the financial sector in the us allow populists in emerging markets not just to retread their critiques of financial markets but also to hold free enterprise and trade guilty by association .
- 5. It is the govenment who is creating such racial retread . Now uighur identity and existence is under threat .