(~s, ~ging, ~ged)
1.
A ~ is a small piece of card or cloth which is attached to an object or person and has information about that object or person on it.
Staff wore name ~s.
...baggage ~s.
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see also dog ~ , price ~
2.
An electronic ~ is a device that is firmly attached to someone or something and sets off an alarm if that person or thing moves away or is removed.
A hospital is to fit new-born babies with electronic ~s to foil kidnappers...
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see also electronic ~ging
3.
If you ~ something, you attach something to it or mark it so that it can be identified later.
Professor Orr has developed interesting ways of ~ging chemical molecules using existing laboratory lasers...
VERB: V n
4.
You can refer to a phrase that is used to describe someone or something as a ~. (JOURNALISM)
In Britain, jazz is losing its elitist ~ and gaining a much broader audience.
= label
N-COUNT: usu with supp
5.
If you ~ someone in a particular way, you keep describing them using a particular phrase or thinking of them as a particular thing. (JOURNALISM)
...the pundits were still ~ging him with that age-old label, ‘best of a bad bunch’...
She has always lived in John’s house and is still ~ged ‘Dad’s girlfriend’ by his children.
= label
VERB: V n with n, be V-ed n, also V n as n, V n
6.
see also question ~