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chickenize

chickenize verb: to make chicken-like or suitable for chickens.

Verb

chickenize (third-person singular simple present chickenizes, present participle chickenizing, simple past and past participle chickenized)

  1. (transitive) To make chicken-like or suitable for chickens.
  2. (intransitive, transitive, uncommon) To make (an industry or field of commerce) into a vertically and horizontally integrated industry.
    • To compete with the chicken industry, hog and cattle producers could follow the model that Moeller was slowly building for pig farms. They could chickenize.2014, Christopher Leonard, The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 152
    • Chokepoint capitalists want to chickenize everything they can, so they can control—and capture the lion's share of value from—other people's labor. Now the live music industry is being chickenized too.2022, Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow, Chokepoint Capitalism […] , Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN

Forms of chickenize

third-person singular presentchickenizes
present participlechickenizing
past participlechickenized
pastchickenized

Origin of chickenize

From chicken + -ize. In the business sense popularized by American journalist Christopher Leonard (author) in the context of the US poultry industry, where just a few companies control almost all aspects of chicken production, such as feed, medicines, and chicken houses. This model was later followed by other industries.

Words formed from chickenize

Questions about chickenize

What does chickenize mean?
Chickenize means to make chicken-like or suitable for chickens.
What part of speech is chickenize?
Chickenize is a verb.
What is the past tense of chickenize?
The past tense of chickenize is chickenized.

Words near chickenize in the dictionary

  1. chickeniest
  2. chickening
  3. chickening out
  4. chickenish
  5. chickenization
  6. chickenize
  7. chickenized
  8. chickenizes
  9. chickenizing
  10. chickenless
  11. Chickenley

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