Thesaurus results for RENAME

rename

verb

Definition of rename

as in to relabel

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Recent Examples of rename This from a guy who wants to rename Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico. — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 19 Sep. 2026 Ticket sales had reportedly been dropping off for months prior, following the board's vote last December to rename the facility. — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026 The airport authority voted 6-0 to rename the airport, but said the final name will be determined at a later date. — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2026 The state of Tennessee first announced plans to rename the location after Parton died in late August. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for rename

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Verb

Scammers often relabel old or scrap batteries built by legitimate manufacturers like LG, Panasonic, or Samsung and sell them as new.

— Andrew Moseman, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Nov. 2025
Texas has been known to relabel its drugs’ beyond-use dates, a practice that has been criticized in recent years by death row inmates who have alleged in court that the drugs are expired and unsafe.

— Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 14 Oct. 2025

Definition of relabel

Verb

Scientists captured the image of NGC 1514, nicknamed the Crystal Ball Nebula, with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph.

— Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
And a small group of patients reported experiencing something called anhedonia, nicknamed ozempic personality.

— Tracy Smith, CBS News, 7 June 2026

Definition of nickname

Verb

Allbirds, which plans to rechristen itself as NewBird AI, is not the first struggling company to try to get a another lease on life by seizing on the hot new thing.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
Another is that the company actually may want to completely rechristen itself in hopes of leaving past problems behind and rebooting its corporate image.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021