enregister

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From en- +‎ register.

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enregister (third-person singular simple present enregisters, present participle enregistering, simple past and past participle enregistered) (transitive)

  1. To record on a register.
    Synonym: inregister
  2. (programming) To store in a register of the CPU.
    Enregistering a value during compilation of a program may improve runtime performance.
  3. (linguistics, sociology) To become a register ("a style of a language used in a particular context").
    • 2022 January 13, Tong King Lee, “Spiaking Singlish: The politics of ludic English in Singapore”, in Language in Society, volume 52, number 2, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 249:
      Thus, by systematically labelling Singlish as 'broken English', official discourses enregister Singlish as a low-proficiency version of English and a hindrance to the nation's path toward globalisation.

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