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🎖️ A sign of status 🆔 To give an ID 🔔 To mark with symbol
to badge

to badge

1 6.9
To give someone a small card or pin for identification and entry
  • verb
  • /bædʒ/
translation icon : acreditar
  • At their inception, the Larson sisters always struck me as collegiate art-stoners who wore their Floridian Krishna-commune upbringings like cooler-than-you badges.

And then there there's quite a quick turn around and I ended up going to Afghan, back to Afghanistan quite quite quickly after I was badged.

Examples

  • The manager will badge the new employees during orientation for easy identification.

  • We had a very big support system but badged and we weren't going anywhere.

  • You go get your picture made, whatever you badge in, because my pictures look like an old woman.

  • Gentry badges him.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • After verifying her identity, the receptionist will badge you for access to the restricted area.

  • They need to badge all contractors before they can enter the building.

Antonyms

to remove
∞ 1.5

To move something or someone away from a place

to withdraw
159 3.5

To take money or things out of a place where they are kept

Compounds

badge of honor
17 3.9

A sign people keep or show because they are proud of something they did

merit badge
  • US
12 2.8

A small cloth badge given to scouts for learning a skill

How Identified

to badge
1 6.9
to mark
203 1.4
label
187 1.0
tag
180 1.0

Surface Forms

badge infinitive
badged past
badged past participle
badging present participle
badges third person singular

Etymology

Badge as a verb comes from the idea of giving that 'mark' or token to someone so others know their role or can let them in. That's why to badge a person is to give them identification or access.