WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
func′tional shift′, 
  1. Oceanography, Linguisticsa change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective. Also called functional change. 
  • 1940–45

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functional change - shift

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