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automate

UK/ˈɔːtəmeɪt/

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British/ˈoːtəmɛjt/

automate verb: to replace or enhance human labor with machines.

Verb

automate (third-person singular simple present automates, present participle automating, simple past and past participle automated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To replace or enhance human labor with machines.
    • Many offices still need to automate.
    • We saved time and money by automating the process.
    Synonyms:
    robotize

automate meaning in Urdu, Arabic and Persian

automate in Urdu

خودکار کر لینا

automate in Arabic

to replace or enhance human labor with machines
أَتْمَتَ ʔatmata

automate in Persian

to replace or enhance human labor with machines
خودکاراندن

Examples of automate in a sentence

  • The best thing about this database software is how much it automates the reporting.
  • An efficient process would automate all the routine work.
  • It finally dawned on him that he could automate the process instead of doing it by hand each time.

All 21 example sentences with automate

Synonyms of automate

Forms of automate

third-person singular presentautomates
present participleautomating
past participleautomated
pastautomated

Past tense of automate: automated

Origin of automate

Back-formation from automation.

Words formed from automate

Questions about automate

What does automate mean?
Automate means to replace or enhance human labor with machines.
What is automate in Urdu?
Automate in Urdu is خودکار کر لینا. See Automate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is automate?
Automate is a verb.
How do you pronounce automate?
Automate is pronounced /ˈɔːtəmeɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of automate?
The past tense of automate is automated.

Words near automate in the dictionary

  1. automassage
  2. automat
  3. automata
  4. automatability
  5. automatable
  6. automate
  7. automated
  8. automated clearing house
  9. automated clearing houses
  10. automated driving system
  11. automated machine learning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: automate (page history and authors); automate (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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