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redesignate

redesignate verb: to designate again.

Verb

redesignate (third-person singular simple present redesignates, present participle redesignating, simple past and past participle redesignated)

  1. (transitive) To designate again.
    • 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
    • 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

redesignate meaning in Bengali

redesignate in Bengali

আবার মনোনীত, নির্ধারণ করা

Examples of redesignate in a sentence

  • “This bill redesignates the Martin Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site in the state of Georgia as the “Martin Luther King, Jr.2017 June 29, Jennifer Hansler, “These are the bills Trump signed into law in his first year as President”, in CNN:
  • Last month, Fort Hood in Texas, another major military installation, was redesignated Fort Cavazos, in honor of Gen.2023 June 2, Kaanita Iyer, “US Army renames Fort Bragg as Fort Liberty”, in CNN:

Forms of redesignate

third-person singular presentredesignates
present participleredesignating
past participleredesignated
pastredesignated

Origin of redesignate

From re- + designate.

Questions about redesignate

What does redesignate mean?
Redesignate means to designate again.
What is redesignate in Bengali?
Redesignate in Bengali is আবার মনোনীত, নির্ধারণ করা. See Redesignate meaning in Bengali.
How do you use redesignate in a sentence?
“This bill redesignates the Martin Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site in the state of Georgia as the “Martin Luther King, Jr.
What part of speech is redesignate?
Redesignate is a verb.
What is the past tense of redesignate?
The past tense of redesignate is redesignated.

Words near redesignate in the dictionary

  1. redesertion
  2. redesertions
  3. redesign
  4. redesignability
  5. redesignable
  6. redesignate
  7. redesignated
  8. redesignates
  9. redesignating
  10. redesignation
  11. redesignations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: redesignate (page history and authors); redesignate (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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