Definition of "reflagging" [reflagging]

• Present participle of reflag. (verb)

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• "IRISL responded by camouflaging much of its fleet, reflagging and renaming scores of its blacklisted ships."
• "And in March 1987, the Reagan Administration, intent on excluding the Russians, told the Kuwaitis that the United States would take on the whole job of reflagging or nothing at all."
• "He then stole a Russian ship, and reflagging it as a vessel of the Polish Confederacy, sailed through the Northern Pacific, traveling by way of the Aleutians, Alaska, Japan, and Taiwan, where, he recorded, he became King of Formosa."