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redesignate en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English designate English redesignate From re- + designate.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To designate again.
   • The four chapters of Davenport's work generally follow the same scheme. Adriaan calls section one "An Erewhonian Sketchbook" and uses a Napoleonic rather than a Gregorian calendar redesignating the months Messidor (July), Thermidor (August), and Fructidor (September). 2003, Farhat Iftekharuddin, Joseph Boyden, Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story, page 139:
   • Last month, Fort Hood in Texas, another major military installation, was redesignated Fort Cavazos, in honor of Gen. Richard Edward Cavazos, a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars who became the first Hispanic person to wear four stars on his uniform. 2023 June 2, Kaanita Iyer, “US Army renames Fort Bragg as Fort Liberty”, in CNN:
   • “This bill redesignates the Martin Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site in the state of Georgia as the “Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.” The bill replaces the current boundary map with a map of a proposed boundary revision dated June 2015.” 2017 June 29, Jennifer Hansler, “These are the bills Trump signed into law in his first year as President”, in CNN:
   • What happens when I arrive somewhere is they isolate me and notify the Regional office they want me transferred. The Regional takes a couple months to redesignate me, and when I get to the new place the same thing happens again. 1988 April 16, John F. Harding, “Homophobic Merry-Go-Round”, in Gay Community News, page 5:

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