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Definition of Regrade

1. v. i. To retire; to go back.

Definition of Regrade

1. Verb. To grade again, give a new grade or grading to. ¹

2. Verb. To regroup or reassign. ¹

3. Verb. (American English) To change the classification of potentially secret documentation. ¹

4. Verb. To retire or recede. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Regrade

1. grade [v -GRADED, -GRADING, -GRADES] - See also: grade

Medical Definition of Regrade

1. To intentionally reconfigure the elevations and slopes on a parcel of land by means of surveying technology and construction equipment. (16 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Regrade

Literary usage of Regrade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1916)
"Power to Grade and regrade.—The legislature may fix or change the grade of streets or highways by its own direct act,8 or it may delegate the power to ..."

2. Earthwork and Its Cost: A Handbook of Earth Excavation by Halbert Powers Gillette (1920)
"The Denny Hill regrade, Seattle. This project, comprising an area of 43 city blocks, was undertaken at Seattle, Wash., as described at length in Engineering ..."

3. Earthwork and Its Cost: A Handbook of Earth Excavation by Halbert Powers Gillette (1920)
"The Denny Hill regrade, Seattle. This project, comprising an area of 4:i city blocks, was undertaken at . ..."

4. Reservoirs for Irrigation, Water-power, and Domestic Water-supply: With an by James Dix Schuyler (1908)
"The first of these, the Jackson regrade Project, involved the moving of 3400000 cubic ... The second project, known as the Denny Hill regrade, involves the ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1903)
"... without the consent of the property holders injured thereby, and without making compensation for the damages sustained, to regrade so as to injure the ..."

6. History of Seattle from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time by Clarence Bagley (1916)
"... About 1890 and in 1915 S5O View Prior to the regrade in 1915 554 Madison Street During the Regrading and in 1915 558 Looking Toward the Olympics from ..."

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