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reidentifying

reidentifying is the present participle and gerund 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 reidentifying

What is reidentifying the present participle and gerund of?
Reidentifying is the present participle and gerund of reidentify.

Words near reidentifying in the dictionary

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

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