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working-classize

working-classize verb: to cause to be working-class.

Verb

working-classize (third-person singular simple present working-classizes, present participle working-classizing, simple past and past participle working-classized)

  1. (Marxism, North-Korea, transitive) To cause to be working-class.
    • The tasks, and the means of carrying them out, to revolutionize and working-classize the whole society were elucidated by him.1970, Baik Bong, Kim Il Sung, Biography: From Independent National Economy to 10-point Political Programme (Kim Il Sung: Biography; 3)
    • Teachers are not simply wage earners who teach students, but revolutionaries bringing up the future builders of socialism. For this reason, we are working hard to help teachers acquire advanced science and technology and to revolutionize and working-classize them.1972 May 14, Kim Il Sung, Kim Il Sung Works (Kim Il Sung Works; 27), Pyongyang, Korea: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Talk to the Delegation of the Japan National Association of Socialist...

Forms of working-classize

third-person singular presentworking-classizes
present participleworking-classizing
past participleworking-classized
pastworking-classized

Origin of working-classize

From working-class + -ize. In Juche contexts, perhaps a calque of Korean 로동계급화(勞動階級化) (rodonggyegeuphwa).

Questions about working-classize

What does working-classize mean?
Working-classize means to cause to be working-class.
What part of speech is working-classize?
Working-classize is a verb.
What is the past tense of working-classize?
The past tense of working-classize is working-classized.

Words near working-classize in the dictionary

  1. working vocabulary
  2. working week
  3. working weeks
  4. working wonders
  5. working-class
  6. working-classize
  7. working-classized
  8. working-classizes
  9. working-classizing
  10. working-storage section
  11. working-storage sections

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