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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

mandarinize en · VERB

Etymology

From mandarin + -ize.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To adapt for the use of government bureaucrats, or mandarins.
    • Kojève […] sought to depoliticize and “mandarinize” the process through economic arrangements […] 2012, Will Kymlicka, Kathryn Walker, Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Canada and the World, page 200:

Forms

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mandarinized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
mandarinized Tense=Past lexicographic
mandarinizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
mandarinizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic