favoritize

Verb

favoritize (third-person singular simple present favoritizes, present participle favoritizing, simple past and past participle favoritized)

1. (transitive) To make a favorite of; to give preference to.
   • Go to the channel you want to "favoritize," and then click the Add button.1999, Alan Simpson, Windows 98 to Go, page 132
   • But when he compares futures in which he has two children, he would rather that his two children, on average, be better off: 'If I am going to have two children in any case, I am not going to favoritize Danny.'2013, Caspar Hare, The Limits of Kindness, page 124
2. (intransitive) To play favorites.
   • Regional opposition to this pattern of "favoritizing," as well as protest over the freezing of wages and prices and other emergency economic measures, precipitated a full-scale crisis in Zambia.1969, Robert H. Bates, A Simulation Study of a Crisis in Southern Africa, page 6
   • She favoritizes while she undermines, demeans and denigrates you. The narcissist parent will usually have a golden child.2020, Darlene Krug, Damaged Goods, page 4
3. (proscribed, rare) To favor; to encourage.
   • If he can get Federal assistance for French, panish, German, and now Russian, and can get none for Latin, he is going, almost of necessity, to favoritize the languages in which this assistance and equipment and so forth are present.1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor, National Defense Education Act, page 602
   • Greenspan likewise emphasizes the active mobilization of emotional states which favoritize tiny new steps of learning and of social exchange ( Greenspan and Weider, 1998;cf. Shanker, 2003).2005, Jacqueline Nadel, Darwin Muir, Emotional Development: Recent Research Advances, page 441