verb. To code again, especially to decode and then encode anew with a different code.

verb. put into a different code; rearrange mentally

"Those couples will not be included in the official national count of married couples because the Census Bureau does not have time before April to change its editing processes -- which "recode" the answer of any person who says he or she is a spouse in a same-sex marriage to "unmarried partner.""

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recoded  recoding