reidentify

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Definition of reidentify

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  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?”
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verb

  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?”
  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)[…]”
    “By constructing an ethnic identity for people who are stigmatized and suffering as consequence of their faith in Christ, Peter helps his addressees disidentify with their past and reidentify as the[…]”
    “... with other scholars having discussed examples of African ethnic groups that came under pressure to reidentify as Indigenous peoples and […]”

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Etymology

From re- + identify.

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