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A chum of mine in the Mother Country informed me that his son, who is in the British Army, is moving from one unit of that (The Queen's Own Royal Donkey Drivers or some such) to another unit of it (The First Royal Highlands Rock Throwers or some other such). To describe the process of departing from one military unit and integrating with a new one, he said his son would be "rebadged."
I looked it up and the primary use of this terms seems to be when a vendor arranges with a manufacturer to put the vendor's brand name and label on something not made by the vendor, e.g. Wally's Widget Company contracts with the Universal Key Company to produce wind-up keys for widgets which bear the label "Wally's Widget Wind-Up Keys" but are not, in fact, manufactured by Wally. Of them, it can be said that the keys were rebadged.
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Isn't this what we call relabeling? For products, anyway; I suppose that, since military uniforms come with badges, a change to a different uniform really means it literally.
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I think that, here in the Colonies, we tend to call the thing done with products "relabeling" rather than "rebadging." This strikes me as odd, especially when it is something like an automobile that is being re-identified and marketed. There are not a lot of labels on a car but there are certainly badges, kinda, sorta.
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I believe our military units sport a uniform badge which identifies the unit to which assigned. When one moves from one unit to another he removes the old badge and replaces it with the identifier of his new unit.
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"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" - Gold Hat, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre nevertheless, here's some military badges.. http://www.militarybadges.info/pages/uk/britain.htm
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How wonderful to see a post from TEd -- my favourite punster in all of Creation -- after a bit of an hiatus!
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