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chickenizing

chickenizing is the present participle and gerund 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 chickenizing

What is chickenizing the present participle and gerund of?
Chickenizing is the present participle and gerund of chickenize.

Words near chickenizing in the dictionary

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

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