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classify someone/something as something collocation to put someone or something into a group according to their type, or to say which group or type someone or something belongs to: The police initially classified it as an accidental death. children who are classified as overweight Only 4% of respondents classified themselves as being multiracial. See
classify Some people classify it as a shrub, but it is really a small tree. The storm has been classified as a Category 2 hurricane. The authorities want to classify them as terrorists. The parole board classified her as a serious offender and recalculated her prison term. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Classifying and creating order alphabetize anti-hierarchical arrange arrangement arranger concordance describe macrocosm misclassification misclassify miscode mislabel misorder pigeonhole short-list shortlist sort sort something out spring-clean unstructured |