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chickenizes

chickenizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chickenize.

Meaning of chickenize

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

Questions about chickenizes

What is chickenizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Chickenizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chickenize.

Words near chickenizes in the dictionary

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

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