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recategorizing

recategorizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about recategorizing

What is recategorizing the present participle and gerund of?
Recategorizing is the present participle and gerund of recategorize.

Words near recategorizing in the dictionary

  1. recategorization
  2. recategorizations
  3. recategorize
  4. recategorized
  5. recategorizes
  6. recategorizing
  7. recathectic
  8. recatheterise
  9. recatheterised
  10. recatheterises
  11. recatheterising

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