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A t__ is a small piece of card or cloth which is attached to an object or person and has information about that object or person on it.A tag is a small piece of card or cloth which is attached to an object or person and has information about that object or person on it.
Staff wore name tags.
...baggage tags.
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noun
A tag is a small piece of card or cloth which is attached to an object or person and has information about that object or person on it.
Staff wore name tags.
...baggage tags.
An electronic tag is a device that is firmly attached to someone or something and sets off an alarm if that person or thing moves away or is removed.
A hospital is to fit new-born babies with electronic tags to foil kidnappers.
Sometimes, they've snapped off the security tag and just taken the one shoe.
You can refer to a phrase that is used to describe someone or something as a tag .
Jazz was losing its elitist tag and gaining a much broader audience.
A tag is a short phrase or saying that you quote from a book, speech, or piece of writing.
Tag is a children's game in which one child chases the others and tries to touch them.
verb
If you tag something, you attach something to it or mark it so that it can be identified later.
Professor Orr has developed interesting ways of tagging chemical molecules using existing laboratory lasers.
The most important trees were tagged to protect them from being damaged by machinery.
If you tag someone in a particular way, you keep describing them using a particular phrase or thinking of them as a particular thing.
...the pundits were still tagging him with that age-old label, 'best of a bad bunch'.
She has always lived in John's house and is still tagged 'Dad's girlfriend' by his children.
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cefr-level B2

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