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badged


noun

  1. a special or distinctive mark, token, or device worn as a sign of allegiance, membership, authority, achievement, etc.: a police badge; a merit badge.
  2. any emblem, token, or distinctive mark: He considered a slide rule as the badge of an engineering student.
  3. a card bearing identifying information, as one’s name, symbol or place of employment, or academic affiliation, and often worn pinned to one’s clothing.
  4. Digital Technology. digital badge.

verb (used with object), badged, badg·ing.

  1. to furnish or mark with a badge.

noun

  1. a distinguishing emblem or mark worn to signify membership, employment, achievement, etc
  2. any revealing feature or mark
n.

mid-14c., perhaps from Anglo-French bage or from Anglo-Latin bagis, plural of bagia “emblem,” all of unknown origin.

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