self-identify
[self-ahy-den-ti-fahy, ‐i-den-ti-fahy]
- identify(defs 7, 8): to self-identify as gay; to self-identify with others in the same situation.
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- identify(defs 4, 6): I've never self-identified myself with that radical mentality. She sometimes self-identifies herself with her patients.
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Origin of self-identify
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Contemporary Examples
It is literally illegal to be gay, and so to self-identify is to risk imprisonment.
McCarthy, who used to self-identify as a Democrat, now calls herself an Independent.
In January, Gallup found a historically high number of Americans – 42 percent – self-identify as politically independent.
Upon the adoption of the new system, all soldiers would be required to self-identify tattoos to their unit leaders.
Indeed, even 70 percent of Latinos who self-identify as Republicans oppose this law.