(v. t.) To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.
Example Sentences:
(1) The European council president, Donald Tusk, said the incident underlined the importance of EU attempts to revamp Europe’s border force.
(2) Tesco has revamped its budget range of value products with a new range of own-label “farm” brands as it steps up its fight against German discounters Aldi and Lidl.
(3) Die Mannschaft were eliminated in the group stage that year, a failure that instigated a major revamp of the nation’s academy system.
(4) One of the strengths of the Booker prior to its international revamp was that it showcased writers from the Commonwealth, introducing these authors to new and larger audiences, much like the Caine prize.
(5) The Apple boss opened up several new fronts at the start of the year, with plans to launch online movie rentals and a revamped "Apple TV" on which to play them, trying to do for broadband-based video on demand what iTunes did for music downloads.
(6) Photograph: Alamy Around the harbour, there are developments such as the new Cristiano Ronaldo CR7 hotel (the Portuguese footballer is the world’s most famous Madeiran), his revamped CR7 museum , and a swish new design centre .
(7) Chelsea could potentially follow up Falcao’s arrival on a 12-month loan with a move for Antoine Griezmann from Atlético – the Frenchman has a £43m buyout clause in his contract – which would see them beginning the defence of their title with a revamped forward line.
(8) In Manchester, which after all is the birthplace of the crisp Smiths, there's old faves James , a newly-revamped Easterhouse and a whole bag of loser Smith clones.
(9) The much-heralded revamp, fronted by a presenting line-up that includes star signing Susanna Reid, managed to attract a 19.5% share of viewers between 6am and 8.30am.
(10) As for Countryfile, Hunt personally oversaw the revamp: "Yes, we did change the presenting line-up, editorially, moving it from daytime to the glare of peak time.
(11) Umunna believes it is now time for a complete revamp or "new politics for a new generation".
(12) Herbert Diess, the chief executive of the VW brand, said he would overhaul the division’s strategy to concentrate on electric and hybrid vehicles and revamp all diesel cars and vans to feature cleaner exhaust emissions systems.
(13) The revamp of Ten’s news brand as Eyewitness News , beginning on Monday night, has been overshadowed by the shock resignation of the broadcaster’s high-profile journalist, Hamish Macdonald.
(14) We are preparing contingency plans in case a strike does go ahead but in the meantime we urge the RMT to return to the negotiating table and discuss the changes to the conductor role we are seeking to make.” GTR says the revamped conductor role would mean better customer service for passengers, including checking tickets, and that CCTV would give drivers a clear view of every door on the train when they took over responsibility.
(15) Labor has accused Tony Abbott’s government of jeopardising the future of the national disability insurance scheme by revamping its board.
(16) Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, is revamping Tehran's relations with the west, especially the US, but the country's judiciary, which is independent of his government, and the security apparatus have intensified their crackdown on journalists.
(17) Boeing insists it has a future: even the president still wants it , for a revamped Air Force One.
(18) Germany has thrown its weight behind long-stalled efforts to revamp Europe’s dealings with refugees, demanding a quota system that would distribute migrants coming to Europe more equitably among the 28 countries of the European Union .
(19) The government was also forced into a partial U-turn in its plans to axe the £162m ring-fenced national budget for school sport after an outcry but has restored only around half the funding as part of a revamped School Games strategy.
(20) A prolific TV pundit and influential newspaper columnist, the Spectator's former political editor succeeded Matthew d'Ancona as editor of the rightwing political weekly in August last year and will revamp it in the autumn .
Rework
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
(2) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
(3) Previously a cover-up and reworking of a tattoo beneath, when she was performing across the UK with Girls Aloud in February , you could see the bold work in progress poking above her backless stage costumes.
(4) And then there's a long, long process where you can keep refining and reworking.
(5) If the large-scale, comprehensive abstracting and indexing services were based on enumerative classifications with assignment of documents to logical hierarchical categories at the time of initial indexing, then many of the specialized information centers (50) and the 1300 abstracting and indexing services (3) would be unnecessary, and much of the reindexing and reprocessing of documents, the repackaging and reworking of abstracts and index data, and the resulting overlap and duplication characteristic of current information processing could be terminated.
(6) This paper focuses on the choice of a sexual partner and pregnancy issues as symptoms of reworking established conflicts around self-valuation and abandonment by sibling and grieving parents.
(7) Armitage's stage version, commissioned for the in-the-round Royal Exchange in Manchester, a space that can encompass both the intimate and the epic, reworks The Iliad , adding an ending Homer never wrote.
(8) A radical reworking of Douglas Sirk with Julianne Moore's 1950s housewife married to repressed homosexual Dennis Quaid, the film earned Haynes an Oscar nomination and confirmed him as a major talent, and one who'd outgrown the role of poster boy for New Queer Cinema.
(9) The proposed rework was a “seriously retrograde step” – “a colossal mistake, and a dangerous one.” The opposition leader validated arguments Jewish groups, including the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, have raised this past week against the proposed RDA changes.
(10) Harry Moran's Pizzabot, a reworking of Space Invaders, also drove down a release from the Call of Duty series when it debuted on the chart, leading to the Irish boy being dubbed the youngest successful app developer in the world.
(11) The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends (£2.99) The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends is a reworking of Eric Carle’s classic book and illustrations, in the form of a digital “pop-up app” modelled after printed pop-up books.
(12) This "first-cut" ration can then be reworked in the spreadsheet mode to meet the needs of the individual farm based on other biologic and management considerations.
(13) Today, a fully restored, boldly extended and slightly reworked St Pancras proves that we can have our boiled beef and our oil-drizzled fettuccine and eat it.
(14) Other contributors include Bat For Lashes, Tove Lo and Chvrches, while Kanye “reworks” Flicker.
(15) He thinks it's complicated – though in the case of Shylock , his reworking of the Merchant of Venice , he is prepared to be specific.
(16) In optimal circumstances, the identifications out of which the child's character is built become reworked and modified so that it becomes increasingly unique and independent of its sources in others.
(17) It also recommended a reworking of proportionality tests.
(18) Parliament rises on Thursday, with only two further sitting weeks scheduled before the summer break, providing limited time for the multinational bill to be reworked before 1 January.
(19) We also seem to be heading increasingly towards a directors’ theatre, where the ability to rework standard classics takes precedence over new writing: look at the fervid excitement created by current productions of The Crucible and A Streetcar Named Desire .
(20) There was fine work from the Dardenne brothers – their Le Gamin au Vélo was a modern reworking of Oliver Twist and Bicycle Thieves .