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reidentifies

reidentifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reidentify.

Meaning of reidentify

Verb

reidentify (third-person singular simple present reidentifies, present participle reidentifying, simple past and past participle reidentified)

  1. (transitive) To identify (something or someone) again; to make identifiable again; to re-discern the identity of; especially, for example, to undo deidentification of.
    • To take each in turn, how likely is it that public health adversaries will reidentify data?2019 October 4, Stephen Holland, Ethics and Governance of Public Health Information, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 68
  2. (intransitive) To identify again (as something one previously identified as, or as something else).
    • The decision to remain Catholic (or to reidentify as Catholic)[…]2017 July 12, Thomas Robbins, In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America, Routledge, →ISBN

Questions about reidentifies

What is reidentifies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Reidentifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reidentify.

Words near reidentifies in the dictionary

  1. reidentifiability
  2. reidentifiable
  3. reidentification
  4. reidentifications
  5. reidentified
  6. reidentifies
  7. reidentify
  8. reidentifying
  9. reideologization
  10. reideologize
  11. Reider

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