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recategorise

recategorise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of recategorize.

Meaning of recategorize

Verb

recategorize (third-person singular simple present recategorizes, present participle recategorizing, simple past and past participle recategorized)

  1. To categorize again, to put in a new or different category.
    • In 2021, Egypt recategorized nurseries as micro-, small- and medium enterprises (MSMEs), which provides greater business benefits, including tax markdowns, and in 2024, Jordan streamlined the registration process for home-based nurseries, making it simpler to start a child-minding business from...2025 February 6, Rebecca Cairns, “Just 1 in 5 women are employed in this region. Investing in the care economy could change that”, in CNN, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2025

Forms of recategorise

third-person singular presentrecategorises
present participlerecategorising
past participlerecategorised
pastrecategorised

Origin of recategorise

From re- + categorise.

Questions about recategorise

What is recategorise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Recategorise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of recategorize.

Words near recategorise in the dictionary

  1. recatch
  2. recatches
  3. recatching
  4. recategorisation
  5. recategorisations
  6. recategorise
  7. recategorised
  8. recategorises
  9. recategorising
  10. recategorization
  11. recategorizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recategorise (page history and authors); recategorize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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