re-label

A form of relabel — To label again; to apply a new label to.

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Meanings

verbre-label (third-person singular simple present re-labels, present participle (US) re-labeling or (UK) re-labelling, simple past and past participle (US) re-labeled or (UK) re-labelled)

present singular third person re-labels · US participle present re-labeling · UK participle present re-labelling · US participle past re-labeled · US past re-labeled · UK participle past re-labelled · UK past re-labelled

  1. alternativeAlternative form of relabel.
    1 more example

    My presumption is that this same mechanism was at work in two counties in Shaanxi Province, as recorded in county gazetteers. In Qianyang County, during the Cleansing of Class Ranks campaign of 1968-69 that put to an end the Cultural Revolution fighting, 152 households were newly labeled as landlord and 130 as rich peasant, while in Shanyang County over a thousand households were re-labeled as landlords or rich peasants.

    2002, Jonathan Unger, “The Cultural Revolution in the Villages”, in The Transformation of Rural China, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 65
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APA

re-label. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-label

MLA

“re-label.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-label. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “re-label,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-label.

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