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open washing

open washing is the alternative form of openwashing.

open washing is the present participle and gerund of open wash.

Meaning of openwashing

Noun

openwashing (uncountable)

  1. The act of claiming something is open (without proprietary licensing) when it does not meet all the criteria of openness.
    • Evgeny Morozov (2013) recently took issue with the seemingly ubiquitous presence of “open” initiatives in contemporary culture and pointed to the reading of “openness into situations and environments where it doesn't exist” as acts of “openwashing.” Yet, as Morozov also argues, a consideration of...2014, Suzanne tamang, Gregory T. Donovan, “Introduction: Media and Methods for Opening Education”, in The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, number 5

Meaning of open wash

Noun

open wash (plural open washes)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see open, wash.
    • The open washes are generally Wide and shallow with low ledging paralleling the water courses.1959, Don D. Fowler, James H. Gunnerson, Jesse David Jennings, The Glen Canyon Archeological Survey - Part 3, page 555

Questions about open washing

What is open washing the alternative form of?
Open washing is the alternative form of openwashing.

Words near open washing in the dictionary

  1. open wagon
  2. open wagons
  3. open wash
  4. open washed
  5. open washes
  6. open washing
  7. open water
  8. open waters
  9. open weights
  10. open wheel
  11. open wide

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Adapted from Wiktionary: open washing (page history and authors); openwashing (page history and authors); open wash (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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