单词 | decasualize |
释义 | decasualize in British English or decasualise (ˌdɪˈkæʒjʊˌlaɪz) verb (transitive) US to replace the casual workers in (a business) with permanent employees decasualize in American English (diˈkæʒuːəˌlaiz) transitive verbWord forms: -ized, -izing to reduce or eliminate the employment of (casual labor) Also esp Brit decasualise Derived forms decasualization noun Word origin [1890–95; de- + casual + -ize]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cholesterol, honky-tonk, neoclassicism, plein-air, pogeyde- is a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit; derange), descent (degrade; deduce), reversal (detract), or intensity (decompound); -ize is a verb-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from Greek that have enteredEnglish through Latin or French (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within English, -ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general senses“to render, make” (actualize; fossilize; sterilize; Americanize), “to convert into, give a specified character or form to” (computerize; dramatize; itemize; motorize), “to subject to (as a process, sometimes named after its originator)” (hospitalize; terrorize; galvanize; oxidize; simonize; winterize). Also formed with -ize are a more heterogeneous group of verbs, usually intransitive, denoting a changeof state (crystallize), kinds or instances of behavior (apologize; moralize; tyrannize), or activities (economize; philosophize; theorize) |
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