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reclassified
adjective as in diverted
Example Sentences
Return of the Jedi was not the only film reclassified in the latest changes.
That measure would undo parts of Proposition 47, a 2014 criminal justice reform measure approved by voters that reclassified some property and drug crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
The measure seeks to roll back some aspects of Proposition 47 — a decade-old law that reclassified certain nonviolent felonies, including those related to theft and drug possession, as misdemeanors.
“Under Prop 47, prison and jail populations plummeted as did arrests for drug and property crimes after certain offenses were reclassified from felonies to misdemeanors,” the report stated.
The measure, called the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act, asks voters to partially unwind Proposition 47, a controversial ballot initiative passed in 2014 that reclassified some nonviolent felonies as misdemeanors.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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