regrade
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[edit]Verb
[edit]regrade (third-person singular simple present regrades, present participle regrading, simple past and past participle regraded)
- (transitive) To grade again, give a new grade or grading to.
- 1951 September, “Notes and News: New Station for Glasgow Zoo”, in Railway Magazine, page 639:
- Before the new station could be built, a private overbridge had to be raised, and the railway regraded.
- 2020 April 8, “Network News: NR reopens East Grinstead line...”, in RAIL, page 16:
- Two other landslips took place in a cutting where the sides were built too steeply to withstand wet weather. Engineers regraded the slope to make them shallower.
- (transitive) To regroup or reassign.
- (US, transitive) To change the classification of (potentially secret documentation).
- (obsolete) To retire or recede.
Translations
[edit]to grade again
to regroup
to change classification
to retire
Noun
[edit]regrade (plural regrades)
- The act or process of grading again.
- There are no regrades in this class: your mark is final.