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redesignation

redesignation

6.7
An official change of name or status for something
  • noun
  • /ˌriːdɪˈzɪɡneɪʃən/
  • Formal
translation icon : redesignación
  • For example, in the redesignation of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the EPA relied upon data from two counties comprising the nonattainment area. See Grand Rapids Redesignation, supra note 209.

Examples

  • See Wisconsin Redesignation, supra note 355, at 43,669. See supra note 123 and accompanying text.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Rather than redesignation to attainment, some moderate nonattainment areas may instead face elevation to serious nonattainment status for failure to meet the NAAQS in the three years prior to their 1996 attainment deadline.

    Academic text (1996)
  • See Pittsburgh Area Group Petitions for Redesignation, Clean Air Network Online, July 15, 1996.

    Academic text (1996)
  • H.R. 1582 also extends the right to redesignation to areas that suffer from transport within the same state.

    Academic text (1996)
  • I would also like to say publicly that I personally agree with the redesignation to "modest support" (before the change, I communicated with David on that and expressed my support for it).

    Blog text (5)
  • In so doing, EPA declined to include data from monitors in adjacent counties that commenters contended registered enough violations to halt the redesignation. Id. 447

    Academic text (1996)
  • 26 Many states with nonattainment areas around the country had petitioned the EPA for redesignation to attainment status because ozone levels had been relatively low for two of the requisite three years needed to establish compliance.

    Academic text (1996)
  • For example, in the redesignation of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the EPA relied upon data from two counties comprising the nonattainment area. See Grand Rapids Redesignation, supra note 209.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Such an approach, lengthened to account for weather cycles, might alleviate truly anomalous years and discourage data shopping, but states are unlikely to want the EPA to scrutinize data for a decade before granting redesignation.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The city's redesignation as a historic landmark has attracted tourists from all over the country.

Synonyms

reclassification
vsredesignation
1 6.5

To move something into a different group

focuses on official renaming or title changes rather than only category shifts
requalification
vsredesignation
  • Formal
8.4

To change the official use of land or buildings

is broader covering any official renaming retitling or status change
rechristening
vsredesignation
  • Formal
7.0

An event where someone gives a new name to a person or thing in a religious ceremony

is used for official name or status changes not only ceremonial renaming
rebaptism
vsredesignation
  • Literature
8.4

Giving a person or group a new identity to show a fresh start

is typically an official or formal change rather than symbolic rebirth

How Official

redesignation
  • Formal
6.7
to rename
64 2.3
label
187 1.0
to nickname
  • Informal
49 2.0

Surface Forms

redesignation singular

Morphology

redesignation = redesignate (transparent) = re + designate + ion

This is a regular nominalization of the verb 'redesignate', meaning the act or result of redesignating.

Etymology

The word redesignation has re- meaning 'again' and designate meaning 'to give a name or label'. So a redesignation is an official 'renaming' or change of a thing's name, title, or status.