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optionalize

optionalize verb: to make optional; to add as an option, permit to be optionally omitted, or provide various options for implementing.

Verb

optionalize (third-person singular simple present optionalizes, present participle optionalizing, simple past and past participle optionalized)

  1. To make optional; to add as an option, permit to be optionally omitted, or provide various options for implementing.
    • It seems easier to optionalize or abandon a subject altogether than to provide opportunities for small group discussion guided by faculty in the security of a laboratory type of environment.1968, Teacher Education - Issues 1-6, page 36
    • If societies can come to accept (value) and optionalize (permit) ethnolinguistic diversity, so that some can treasure it for maintenance purposes, others for enrichment, and others for transitional purposes, I am sure that bilingual education will quickly become what it should be: an internally...1978, National Conference on Social Welfare, The Social Welfare Forum, →ISBN

Examples of optionalize in a sentence

  • But I think we need to optionalize contingencies.2010, Charles W. Colson, God and Government, →ISBN, page 24:
  • Small business lending programs, proposed bank fees; whatever the decision, Geithner was a man determined to optionalize.2012, Noam Scheiber, The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery, →ISBN:
  • But it does mean that they experience a demand to optionalize each and every one of them.2018, Aaron James Wendland, Christopher Merwin, Christos Hadjioannou, Heidegger on Technology, →ISBN:

Forms of optionalize

third-person singular presentoptionalizes
present participleoptionalizing
past participleoptionalized
pastoptionalized

Origin of optionalize

From optional + -ize.

Questions about optionalize

What does optionalize mean?
Optionalize means to make optional; to add as an option, permit to be optionally omitted, or provide various options for implementing.
How do you use optionalize in a sentence?
But I think we need to optionalize contingencies.
What part of speech is optionalize?
Optionalize is a verb.
What is the past tense of optionalize?
The past tense of optionalize is optionalized.

Words near optionalize in the dictionary

  1. optionalises
  2. optionalising
  3. optionalities
  4. optionality
  5. optionalization
  6. optionalize
  7. optionalized
  8. optionalizes
  9. optionalizing
  10. optionally
  11. optionally piloted vehicle

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