Identify
Rate
Rate verb - To be or make worthy of (as a reward or punishment).
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Explicitly stated by the S&P officer, who points out that the main reason Baum's group want them to rate the CDOs more accurately (to identify them as junk, instead of AAA-secure) is because they stand to make a huge amount of money when the CDOs collapse.
Source: Film / The Big Short
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