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badging

badging

1 5.1
Giving or showing a badge to identify someone and show their achievements
  • noun
  • /ˈbædʒɪŋ/
translation icon : identificación
  • In addition to the Honda mill and 5-speed auto box, the Red Line also received lowered and tightened suspension, 18" alloy wheels, shiny chrome on its exhaust tip, and unique badging.

They had all these badging, all these emblems.

Examples

  • They got special interior badging, OK, and you can get this exclusive launch green option.

  • At the event, the organizers provided clear badging for attendees to help with identification.

  • Presumably they are re badging it then today it looks like.

  • They had all these badging, all these emblems.

    Tom Bilyeu

  • It was people at a table smiling and happy with with Skipper's badging all around them.

  • Along with its Mozilla partnership, the Inanimate Alice team is in the process of customizing an open badging scheme on the Mozilla platform.

    Academic text (2014)

  • (2008) investigated the use of leveled badging at IBM in an effort to encourage contributions in a social networking site called Beehive.

    Academic text (2015)

  • At the Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching at Iowa State University, for example, preservice teachers use a badging system to document their learning of technology skills (Schmidt-Crawford, Thompson, & Lindstrom, 2014).

    Academic text (2015)

  • The company streamlined the badging process to ensure employees received their identification quickly.

  • The new employees were excited to receive their badging for security access within the building.

Compounds

merit badging
5.5

A way people earn small awards for learning, skills, or good work

Surface Forms

badging singular
badgings plural

Morphology

badging = badge (transparent) = badge + ing

Clear nominalization/gerund formed from the verb 'badge' meaning the process of assigning or displaying badges.

Etymology

Badging comes from badge, a small sign you wear to 'show' who you are, plus the ending -ing meaning the 'action'. So, badging is the process of giving or displaying those identification badges.