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cross-fertilise en · VERB

Etymology

From cross- + fertilise.

Meanings

  1. (UK, alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of cross-fertilize.
    • "And the mindset of a silo of rail engineers, and a silo of highway engineers, and a silo of bus experts, and a silo of active travel people, you're not going to integrate just because you put them in one organisation. "You have to actively look at ways to cross-fertilise that thinking, to get multi-modal projects hard-wired in. And from our view, I see TfW as a behaviour change organisation. 2024 February 7, Lee Waters tells Conrad Landin, “A mission to improve transport for Wales”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 34:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
cross-fertilises Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
cross-fertilising Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cross-fertilised Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cross-fertilised Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

cross-fertilisation