The multinationals have already stolen, misused and redefined words and phrases like natural, sustainable, organic, family farm and humanely-raised.
Point out that crafty people have redefined words by their "doublespeak.
She met other activists, many of them students trying to redefine words like "modern," which has meant secular and Western-looking for decades.
And I think that Hilton Als's "The Women" and his essay "Tristes Tropiques" should be required reading for every prose writer, because the way he continually redefines words, sentence by sentence, through repetition and reëxamination and sometimes radical dislocation, presents deep possibilities for risk and reward.
The Constitution grants the power to redefine words to the unitary executive.
He wrote in a way that would allow both him and his readers to redefine words and to create new levels of meaning, thereby liberating them from social control.
Anyway -- enough of my esteem to Mark Zuckerberg for redefining words such as "like" and "friend" that had been so meaningless before he came along with his altruistic vision of improving the universe... Back in that dreadfully primitive time a wonderful lady named Eleanor Roosevelt was a key instigator of a charter that was adopted by the United Nations exactly 65 years ago -- December 10 , 1948
Participants' suggestions for improving the overall questionnaire included providing visual aids, rephrasing sentences, redefining words with concrete examples, revising nonapplicable questions and increasing the use of racially and ethnically concordant interviewers.
Doublespeak is similar but distinct as it is redefining words to add a new meaning that was not there before.
We do too, because Susie told us so on page six - and this easy fait accompli of knowing who's bad and who's good is hardly comparable to Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, a book that redefined the word "liberal" and challenged all the small-town instincts about right and wrong.
Suddenly the country that redefined the word oligarch is feeling the pinch.
