productivize
productivize verb: to render productive.
Verb
productivize (third-person singular simple present productivizes, present participle productivizing, simple past and past participle productivized)
- To render productive.
- Via campaigns to militarize, aestheticize, and productivize everyday life, the minds and bodies of Chinese citizens would become accustomed to the temporal rhythms of mechanized factory and agricultural work, and ever prepared to mobilize against domestic and foreign enemies.2017, Maggie Clinton, chapter 4, in Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937, Durham and London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 130
Forms of productivize
| third-person singular present | productivizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | productivizing |
| past participle | productivized |
| past | productivized |
| alternative UK | productivise |
Origin of productivize
From productive + -ize.
Questions about productivize
- What does productivize mean?
- Productivize means to render productive.
- What part of speech is productivize?
- Productivize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of productivize?
- The past tense of productivize is productivized.
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