Thesaurus results for RENAME

rename

verb

Definition of rename

as in to relabel

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Recent Examples of rename After it was signed into law, county commissioners narrowly approved a naming rights and license agreement to formally rename the airport. — Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2026 To legally rename a street would require approval from the City Council. — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 17 June 2026 Brooklyn’s Berry Street Houses, the public housing complex where Alvarado grew up, should rename the place after him, at least for a day. — Sean Gregory, Time, 14 June 2026 The effort to rename landmarks in a city so central to the farmworker labor movement was pushed last March in a joint memorandum by Councilmembers Peter Ortiz, Pamela Campos, Anthony Tordillos, Domingo Candelas, and Mayor Matt Mahan. — Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 9 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for rename

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Verb

Scammers often relabel old or scrap batteries built by legitimate manufacturers like LG, Panasonic, or Samsung and sell them as new.

— Andrew Moseman, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Nov. 2025
Texas has been known to relabel its drugs’ beyond-use dates, a practice that has been criticized in recent years by death row inmates who have alleged in court that the drugs are expired and unsafe.

— Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 14 Oct. 2025

Definition of relabel

Verb

Allbirds, which plans to rechristen itself as NewBird AI, is not the first struggling company to try to get a another lease on life by seizing on the hot new thing.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
Another is that the company actually may want to completely rechristen itself in hopes of leaving past problems behind and rebooting its corporate image.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021