RETROFITTING Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

retrofitting

verb

present participle of retrofit

as in rebuilding

to provide (something) with new parts that were not available when it was originally built The factory has been retrofitted to meet the new safety regulations. We can retrofit your car with the new fuel system.

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Recent Examples of retrofitting The grants help pay for home improvements like upgrading roof coverings, retrofitting doors and windows, and reinforcing connections between walls and roofs. — Jaclyn De Medicci Bruneau, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2026 Leaving it to revisit once the rules are clearer means retrofitting later, which tends to be considerably slower and more costly. — Sailesh Sewpaul, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026 So how much have taxpayers already spent retrofitting this plane? — Terry Gross, NPR, 5 Aug. 2026 Moreover, retrofitting existing offshore wind turbines with cable-stay reinforcements offers operators a cost-effective way to extend the lifespan of aging assets. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 31 July 2026 European consumers have lagged behind the rest of the world in adopting AC, due to high energy costs, expensive installation fees and restrictions on retrofitting the continent’s older buildings. — Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 30 July 2026 Rather than retrofitting a factory with a robot arm here and a vision sensor there, Foundational makes physical products, starting with data-center hardware, using factories designed from scratch to be run by software. — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 30 July 2026 But manufacturers already producing turbines for other uses are retrofitting now to produce wind energy, even if less efficiently. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2026 Despite a 1994 law to begin retrofitting the most vulnerable housing stock, only 35 buildings have been reinforced in the decades since. — Andrei Popoviciu, The Dial, 21 July 2026

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Fans seem excited The two weekend crowds were good at training camp practices for the rebuilding Dolphins.

— Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2026
Anwar asked Fonte how the hospital is rebuilding after 40 radiologists left.

— Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026

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Patel, whose company is building infrastructure supporting the AI boom, expects AI agents to go mainstream, allowing demand to continue its explosive growth.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
But since Oliver Glasner’s appointment, the Austrian has been working with McAtee — who had already spent the summer working on building his physique — on operating in a deeper role.

— Paul Taylor, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026

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