| 单词 | workmanize |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈworkmanize ˈworkmanize v. rare †(a) transitive to cause to do things in the manner of workmen (obsolete rare); (b) transitive to increase the proportion or influence of workers within (a group); cf. proletarianize v. [In sense (b) after Russian orabočivat′ to increase the ratio of employees with an industrial work background (1920 or earlier) < o- prefix forming verbs denoting process or completion + raboč- stem of rabočij industrial worker (see worker n.) + -ivat′ suffix forming verbs. Compare peasantization n.] ΚΠ 1892 Los Angeles Times 8 Nov. 5/3 The liquor men..preferred to handle their own cash in their own way rather than to take chances of being Workmanized by the active workers who believe in and practice a patent system of hold-out. 1930 S. N. Harper Making Bolsheviks 34 The leaders ordered the cleansing of the Soviet apparatus to eliminate harmful and hostile elements, and at the same time to ‘workmanize’ the governmental bodies. < as lemmas |
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