Carterize

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verb

To make like former US president Jimmy Carter.

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Meanings

verbCarterize (third-person singular simple present Carterizes, present participle Carterizing, simple past and past participle Carterized)

present singular third person Carterizes · participle present Carterizing · participle past Carterized · past Carterized

  1. transitiveTo make like former US president Jimmy Carter.

    It would seem to me we'd be Carterizing Reagan policy.

    1998, Rick Ball, Meet the Press: Fifty Years of History in the Making, page 153
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    The latest evidence of an executive branch apparently determined to Carterize itself comes in the waffling over gasoline lead regulations.

    1982, Commercial West, volume 163, numbers 1-13, page 8

    Ronald Reagan, already under attack from news hounds and political commentators as being overly simple in his approach to everything, deftly avoided all their efforts to "Carterize" him and his Christian beliefs and cruised to an easy electoral victory.

    1996, Norman E. Wymbs, Ronald Reagan's crusade, page 327

    One Clinton strategist grumbled that with so many initiatives in play, "We're worrying about Carterizing ourselves."

    2000, John P. Burke, Presidential Transitions: From Politics to Practice, page 348

Origin

From Carter + -ize.

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