reidentify

verb

re·​iden·​ti·​fy (ˌ)rē-ī-ˈden-tə-ˌfī 

-ə-

reidentified; reidentifying

transitive verb

: to identify (someone or something) again

Cookies were first cooked up as a convenient way to make return visits to Web sites without having to reidentify yourself or your preferences.

—Kiplinger's Personal Finance

also : to give a new or different identity to

Reidentified by false names, they can never contact anyone who knew them before …

—Jet

—often + as

… when the work reemerged in 1967 it was sold at Sotheby's as Fuseli's portrait of Cartwright, but it was immediately reidentified as a self-portrait.

—William L. Pressly

reidentification

(ˌ)rē-ī-ˌden-tə-fə-ˈkā-shən 

-ə-

noun

… the case hinged on the risk of "reidentification," or identifying individuals from apparently anonymized information.

—Patrick Cain

Examples of reidentify in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The data could be used to reidentify users who sought services from the provider. —Mohana Ravindranath, STAT, 3 July 2022

In three of the five cases, the companies' policies did not have clear language about third-party tools that might be used to retarget or reidentify users across the web for marketing. —Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 6 Feb. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1820, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for reidentify

• canaliculi
• dwi
• micronuclei
• oversimplify
• abscissae
• alibi
• alkali
• alumni
• amoebae
• amplify
• annuli
• beautify