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innovates

innovates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of innovate.

Meaning of innovate

Verb

innovate (third-person singular simple present innovates, present participle innovating, simple past and past participle innovated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.
    • But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […]., New York 2001, p.80
  2. (intransitive) To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
    • Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative...
  3. (transitive) To introduce (something) as new.
    • to innovate a word or an act
    Synonyms:
    invent

Questions about innovates

What is innovates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Innovates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of innovate.

Words near innovates in the dictionary

  1. innominates
  2. innominatum
  3. innovant
  4. innovate
  5. innovated
  6. innovates
  7. innovating
  8. innovatingly
  9. innovation
  10. innovational
  11. innovationalism

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