recategorizev.
/ˌriːˈkatᵻɡərʌɪz/, U.S. /riˈkædəɡəˌraɪz/, /riˈkædəɡɔˌraɪz/ transitive. To assign to another category; to reclassify.
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1917 Manch. Guardian 30 July 8/4 A number of these men went out to India early last year, and..have been recategorised and passed to Mesopotamia and other fronts.
1930 Times 3 June 21/7 The following have been recategorized from A1 to A2:- Flight Lieutenants G. S. White and N. H. N. Fletcher.
1968 Social Forces 46 510 In this report the occupational data from the Tucker study were recategorized to fit those in the Centers' study.
2004 K. Yeung Securing Compliance v. 128 The minority of judges refused to recategorise the offence as criminal.
Derivatives
reˈcategorizing n.
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1949 M. Mead in M. Fortes Social Struct. 32 We may find..a recategorizing of cultural experience into such characteristic American forms as fraternities.
1997 S. Ferber in M. Gijswijt-Hofstra et al. Illness & Healing Alternatives W. Europe vi. 122 The reading of historical texts involved..the recategorizing of possession, spiritual ecstasy and the behaviour of accused witches according to new clinical descriptions of hysteria.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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