| 释义 |
recategorize, v.|riːˈkætɪgəraɪz|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To assign to another category; to reclassify. So recategoriˈzation; reˈcategorizing vbl. n.
1949M. Mead in M. Fortes Social Structure 32 We may find..a recategorizing of cultural experience into such characteristic American forms as fraternities. 1957Partridge English gone Wrong i. 12 Those..horrifics, recategorize and recategorization, have..fascinated the combatant services and the Civil Service. 1970Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Apr. 151 The meaning properties tend to be exhausted rather rapidly by the recategorization instructions. 1977Guardian Weekly 19 Sept. 6/3 He claims there are no political detainees in Chile. (Those left in gaol have been recategorised as common criminals.) |