decertified
decertified is the simple past and past participle of decertify.
Meaning of decertify
Verb
decertify (third-person singular simple present decertifies, present participle decertifying, simple past and past participle decertified)
- To annul the certification of.
- The American Medical Association (AMA) was formed in 1845 to gain for medical doctors a monopoly on legal licensure as health practitioners. The young AMA waged fierce (and quite successful) battles to de-certify the then-dominant natural healers — a range of herbalists, midwives, and homeopathic...1989 August 19, Bob Lederer, “Hiding Behind HIV”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 6, page 8
- To annul a labor union.
- As Sallas immediately said, the 130 scabs who so easily replaced the striking printers in '85 won't be foisted upon the union--to degrade it and possibly decertify it.1988 November 11, Michael Miner, “Strike Accord at the Tribune; Is the Sun-Times Next?”, in Chicago Reader
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- What is decertified the simple past and past participle of?
- Decertified is the simple past and past participle of decertify.
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