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reclassify

Pronunciation: /riːˈklasɪfʌɪ/
Definition of reclassify

verb (reclassifies, reclassifying, reclassified)

[with object]
  • assign to a different class or category:what was previously tax relief may be reclassified as government expenditure
  • (in South Africa during the apartheid era) officially assign (someone) to a different legally defined ethnic group.

Derivatives

reclassification

Pronunciation: /-fɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
noun

reclassify in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of reclassify in the US English dictionary
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