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mechanize /ˈmɛk(ə)nʌɪz /(also mechanise) verb [with object]1Introduce machines or automatic devices into (a process or place): the farm was mechanized in the 1950s...- The South African asbestos trade responded to the post-war boom by initiating and extending underground workings, and by centralizing and mechanizing the refining process.
- Thanks to information technology, wine analysis is today much more sophisticated than could have been imagined even a decade ago, and there have even been attempts to mechanize the process of tasting.
- The mining process is more mechanized than that at most Brazilian gem mines.
Synonyms automate, industrialize, motorize, computerize, equip with machines, tool 1.1 (usually as adjective mechanized) Equip (a military force) with modern weapons and vehicles: the units comprised tanks and mechanized infantry...- Armor platoon members can relate to logistics problems when attached to an infantry or mechanized task force not familiar with supporting armor units.
- An influential subset of armoured warfare, rather than a distinct doctrine in its own right, it combined the use of tanks, mechanized infantry, and air power, often with special forces.
- Scout platoons are a recon and security element of a maneuver battalion (infantry, mechanized, tank, or cavalry).
1.2Make mechanical in character: public virtue cannot be mechanized or formulated...- His colleagues at the Pentagon asked him to take on the job of mechanizing the planning process.
Derivativesmechanization /mɛk(ə)nʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ noun ...- Excess labour will be displaced by mechanization.
- But mechanization did more than put artisans out of work.
- In fact, the distilling industry had already undergone mechanization in the production process during the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
mechanizer noun ...- The Stations also trained farm workers and mechanizers and taught them how to use the machines properly: this is another area of experience that may be useful to the developing countries.
- A hundred thousand young mechanizers, tractor operators, agritechnicians and party functionaries moved to Kazakhstan.
- ‘Woman is the creator and fosterer of life; man has been the mechanizer and destroyer of life,’ anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said.
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