Definitions of reclassification
the act of changing the official seriousness of a drug or crime
Reclassification will mean the maximum penalty for unlawful possession of ketamine will increase from two to five years in jail.
the act of taking people or things from their previous groups and put them into new groups
The number of jobs lost in the public sector was 103,000, but much of this this was down to the reclassification of employees of Lloyds bank from the public to the private sector.