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REDEFINITION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does redefinition mean?
• REDEFINITION (noun)
The noun REDEFINITION has 1 sense:
1. the act of giving a new definition
Familiarity information: REDEFINITION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of giving a new definition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
she provided a redefinition of his duties
Hypernyms ("redefinition" is a kind of...):
definition (a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol)
Derivation:
redefine (give a new or different definition of (a word))
redefine (give a new or different definition to)
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