RECATEGORIZE Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

recategorize

verb

Definition of recategorize

as in to reclassify

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Recent Examples of recategorize The proposal would follow a Department of Justice recommendation and lead the DEA to take public comments on a plan to recategorize marijuana. — Jordan Green, Nashville Tennessean, 13 Aug. 2025 When mistakes are low-consequence, smart leaders recategorize errors as learning opportunities, evolutionary misguidance and situational myopia rather than doling out errors with penalties and professional purgatory. — Nuala Walsh, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021 The reintroduced bill would recategorize cranial prosthetics as durable medical equipment covered under the Social Security Act. — Essence, 6 Oct. 2021 In California, lawmakers passed legislation requiring ride-hailing giants to recategorize drivers as employees and not contractors (which Uber and Lyft fought with a ballot initiative that was overturned last month). — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 16 Sep. 2021 See All Example Sentences for recategorize

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New York aims to legally reclassify these operations as gambling, which would drastically increase Kalshi's tax obligations and significantly impact its profitability.

— Nathan Goldman, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Individual states will have to reclassify LSD in this case as well.

— Bob Woods, CNBC, 19 July 2026

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Crustacean will close as planned on July 29 to regroup for its final months of service.

— Melody Xu, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
Ukraine has little choice but to find out, and the time spent learning that lesson has provided Kyiv a useful pause to regroup, and a powerful technological upgrade that Moscow still has to match.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 22 July 2026

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The spiritual leader and Nobel peace laureate has said his office will have the sole authority to identify his reincarnation, who will be found outside China.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
This is how recovery becomes a business when a brand defines itself beyond what its products do to identify how the customer needs it most; when that need becomes unmistakably visible; and what the total experience will ultimately mean.

— Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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