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Taylorize

Taylorize verb: to make more efficient by means of Taylorism.

Verb

Taylorize (third-person singular simple present Taylorizes, present participle Taylorizing, simple past and past participle Taylorized)

  1. (transitive) To make more efficient by means of Taylorism.
    • Nervousness, fatigue, brain-exhaustion . . . had her fight against them been vain? What was the use of all the months and years of patient Taylorized effort against the natural human fate: against anxiety, sorrow, old age—if their menace was to reappear whenever events slipped from her control?1927, Edith Wharton, 'Twilight Sleep', Virago: London, 1996, p. 114

Forms of Taylorize

third-person singular presentTaylorizes
present participleTaylorizing
past participleTaylorized
pastTaylorized

Origin of Taylorize

From Taylor + -ize.

Questions about Taylorize

What does Taylorize mean?
Taylorize means to make more efficient by means of Taylorism.
What part of speech is Taylorize?
Taylorize is a verb.
What is the past tense of Taylorize?
The past tense of Taylorize is Taylorized.

Words near Taylorize in the dictionary

  1. Taylorist
  2. Taylorists
  3. Taylorite
  4. Taylorites
  5. Taylorization
  6. Taylorize
  7. Taylorized
  8. Taylorizes
  9. Taylorizing
  10. Taylormania
  11. taylors

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