Meaning & use
rerate
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Meanings
verbtransitive
To judge or measure the value, quality, or level of something again.
Grammar: Takes an object: rerate a film, rerate a loan.
Patterns
- rerate something
- rerate something as something
The board decided to rerate the film after the director added new scenes.
Analysts will rerate the company after the merger is complete.
The insurance company had to rerate the policy because the risk had changed.
verbtransitivebusinessfinance
To change the official rating or classification of something.
Grammar: Often used in passive: the bond was rerated.
Patterns
- rerate something
- be rerated
The credit agency rerated the bank's bonds after the profit warning.
The show was rerated from PG to 12A.
Regulators may rerate the product if new safety data appears.
Word forms
| third person singular | rerates |
|---|---|
| past tense | rerated |
| past participle | rerated |
| -ing form | rerating |
Common combinations
- rerate a bond
- The agency may rerate the bond next quarter.
- rerate a policy
- We need to rerate the policy after the claim.
- rerate a film
- They chose to rerate the film for a younger audience.
- rerate the risk
- The insurer will rerate the risk using new data.
Synonyms and how they differ
- reassess
- Reassess is broader and means to judge something again, not necessarily to give it a new rating.
- revalue
- Revalue is mainly about money or worth, while rerate can apply to quality, risk, or classification.
- reclassify
- Reclassify focuses on putting something into a different category, which is only one kind of rerating.
Word family
- rerating noun
- The act of rating something again.
- rate verb
- To judge or measure the value or quality of something.
- rating noun
- A measurement of quality or value, or an official classification.
Commonly confused: rerate or rate? rerate or reiterate?
rerate vs rate
Rate means to judge something once; rerate means to do it again.
rerate vs reiterate
Reiterate means to say something again, not to rate it again.
Practice
Choose the best sentence with rerate.
Choose one answer.
Rerate is a transitive verb meaning to rate again, so it needs an object like the bond. Option 1 is wrong because rerate is not used with 'to' meaning to send; option 2 confuses it with relate; option 3 uses it intransitively with the wrong meaning.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “rerate”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.