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open-wash

open-wash is the alternative form of openwash.

Meaning of openwash

Verb

openwash (third-person singular simple present openwashes, present participle openwashing, simple past and past participle openwashed)

  1. To market something as open (without proprietary licensing) when it does not meet all the criteria of openness.
    • Over all, one cannot reduce the skills needed for collaboration to skills in joint publishing. On the other hand, the collaborative skills needed should still be knowledge skills, so the aim is to not 'openwash' the knowledge processes.2015, Kristian Møller, Moltke Martiny, “Embodying Investigations of Cerebral Palsy: A Case of Open Cognitive Science”, in Kristian Moltke Martiny, Allan Alfred Birkegaard Hansted, editors, Open Mind...

Forms of open-wash

third-person singular presentopen-washes
present participleopen-washing
past participleopen-washed
pastopen-washed

Questions about open-wash

What is open-wash the alternative form of?
Open-wash is the alternative form of openwash.

Words near open-wash in the dictionary

  1. open-top bus
  2. open-top buses
  3. open-topped
  4. open-topper
  5. open-toppers
  6. open-wash
  7. open-washed
  8. open-washes
  9. open-washing
  10. open-weight
  11. open-wheel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: open-wash (page history and authors); openwash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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