( re-educates, re-educating, re-educated)
Note: in AM, also use 'reeducate'
If an organization such as a government tries to re-educate a group of people, they try to make them adopt new attitudes, beliefs, or types of behaviour.
We are having to re-educate the public very quickly about something they have always taken for granted.
VERB : V n
• re-education
...a programme of punishment and re-education of political dissidents.
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