Registration Definition & Meaning

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Synonyms registration American [rej-uh-strey-shuhn] / ˌrɛdʒ əˈstreɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the act of registering.

2. an instance of this.

3. an entry in a register.

4. the group or number registered.

5. an official act of registering one's name in the list of qualified voters.

6. a certificate attesting to the fact that someone or something has been registered.

   a boat registration.

7. Music.

   1. the act or technique of registrating.

   2. the selection of stops made by an organist for a particular piece.

registration British / ˌrɛdʒɪˈstreɪʃən /

noun

1. 1. the act of registering or state of being registered

   2. ( as modifier )

      a registration number

2. an entry in a register

3. a group of people, such as students, who register at a particular time

4. a combination of organ or harpsichord stops used in the performance of a piece of music

5. 1. a tax payable by the owner of a motor vehicle

   2. the period paid for

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Other Word Forms

• misregistration noun
• nonregistration noun
• preregistration noun
• registrational adjective
• reregistration noun
• superregistration noun
• underregistration noun

Etymology

Origin of registration

1560–70; < Middle French < Medieval Latin registrātiōn- (stem of registrātiō ). See registrate, -ion

Example Sentences

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Conversely, because draft registrations were to be reinstated, my mother was frozen with fear that her sons would go to war.

From The Wall Street Journal

He was taken to the city's international airport, where he boarded a plane with a US registration, according to sources in the interior ministry.

From Barron's

The fraud goes back to 2017, when the French government decided to part-privatise the system, in a bid to speed up the notoriously slow process of delivering registration papers to car-buyers.

From BBC

Clausen noted that, although voter registration data can be legally requested from county election offices, the data in this case may have been used inappropriately.

From Los Angeles Times

Stewart said many people who are enlisted in party registration drives never intend to vote; they are being neighborly to someone they respect who is politically involved.

From Salon

Related Words

• booking
• certification
• enrollment
• filing
• listing

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