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Taylorizing

Taylorizing is the present participle and gerund of Taylorize.

Meaning of Taylorize

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

Questions about Taylorizing

What is Taylorizing the present participle and gerund of?
Taylorizing is the present participle and gerund of Taylorize.

Words near Taylorizing in the dictionary

  1. Taylorites
  2. Taylorization
  3. Taylorize
  4. Taylorized
  5. Taylorizes
  6. Taylorizing
  7. Taylormania
  8. taylors
  9. Taylors Beach
  10. Taylors Flat
  11. Taylors Hill

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