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acronymise

acronymise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of acronymize.

Meaning of acronymize

Verb

acronymize (third-person singular simple present acronymizes, present participle acronymizing, simple past and past participle acronymized)

  1. (transitive) To turn a phrase into an acronym.
    • A sole professor, who has failed to attract recruits, does not need to acronymize the creations of their own making. But the existence of a capitalized acronym announces that the world is taking seriously an approach or topic […]2013, Michael Billig, Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences, page 89

Forms of acronymise

third-person singular presentacronymises
present participleacronymising
past participleacronymised
pastacronymised

Origin of acronymise

From acronym + -ise.

Questions about acronymise

What is acronymise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Acronymise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of acronymize.

Words near acronymise in the dictionary

  1. acronymic
  2. acronymical
  3. acronymically
  4. acronyming
  5. acronymings
  6. acronymise
  7. acronymised
  8. acronymises
  9. acronymising
  10. acronymist
  11. acronymists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acronymise (page history and authors); acronymize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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