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ˈsocialized, ppl. a. [f. socialize v. + -ed2.] That has been rendered social or socialist. socialized medicine: a system of medical care that is financed and administered by the state.
1848Hamilton Sabbath i. 11 Divine worship, among socialised men, requires social agreement. 1887Pall Mall G. 17 Oct. 2/2 The second part..takes place several years later in a rural commune of Socialized England. 1892G. B. Shaw Fabian Soc. (Fabian Tract No. 41) 20 Thousands of thoroughly Socialized Radicals..who would have resisted Socialism fiercely if it had been forced on them. 1935Sun (Baltimore) 16 Feb. 9/1 Traditionally hostile to socialized medical care, the organized medical profession will decide tomorrow whether to temper its stand to the trend of the day toward State control. 1936J. M. Keynes Gen. Theory Employment, Interest & Money v. xix. 267 Except in a socialised community where wage-policy is settled by decree, there is no means of securing uniform wage reductions for every class of labour. 1939Time 30 Jan. 52/2 Although socialized medicine would certainly limit a patient's free choice of a physician, few people today are free to choose their doctors. 1949Koestler Insight & Outlook xiv. 195 The listing together of such different phenomena as, for example, optical projective illusions, hypnosis, and socialized behaviour as manifestations of ‘self-transcendence’ is arbitrary. 1949Sun (Baltimore) 15 June 12/3 For instance, at this moment the socialized railways of Britain face labor unrest of great intensity, the basic quarrel being over wages. 1964R. Braddon Year Angry Rabbit ix. 82 ‘Goddam,’ muttered the American sourly, ‘why can't you Australians have Socialized Medicine like the Limies?’ 1973Sci. Amer. Jan. 33/1 One [sc. primate] in particular—the chimpanzee—not only cooperates in the work of the chase but also engages in a remarkably socialized distribution of the prey after the kill. 1976Howard Jrnl. XV. i. 51 The juvenile courts dispensed unchallenged what the Americans call socialized justice. (Socialized simply means individualized civil justice which focuses upon social conditions. It has no party political connotations.) 1977Lancet 17 Sept. 596/1 Why socialised medicine should so often be equated with socialist medicine I fail to understand. |