mandarinize en · VERB
Etymology
From mandarin + -ize.
Meanings
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(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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mandarinized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| mandarinized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| mandarinizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| mandarinizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |