favoritizing

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
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
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