classification

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A deficit is not unusual for an art museum, but whether the reclassifications of some restricted funds were appropriate appears to be in doubt.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

The email cites as one of its four “pillars” the idea of a “more streamlined and flexible” workforce that is likely to be restructured, realigned, and reduced through furloughs and reclassifications.

From Slate • Jan. 29, 2025

And curators at museums with Tyrannosaurus specimens that would be affected by these reclassifications say they aren’t going to rename anything based on the proposal.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2022

There were also reclassifications of noninterest bearing liabilities as debt with understated interest expense, and unclear sales deals to repurchase property it had previously sold.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 19, 2016

There was no fundamental change in the doctrine of the categories from the time of Aristotle to that of Kant, and only two proposed reclassifications are of such importance as to require notice.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various