mandarinize

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verb

To adapt for the use of government bureaucrats, or mandarins.

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Meanings

mandarinize1

verbmandarinize (third-person singular simple present mandarinizes, present participle mandarinizing, simple past and past participle mandarinized)

present singular third person mandarinizes · participle present mandarinizing · participle past mandarinized · past mandarinized

  1. transitiveTo adapt for the use of government bureaucrats, or mandarins.

    Kojève […] sought to depoliticize and “mandarinize” the process through economic arrangements […]

    2012, Will Kymlicka, Kathryn Walker, Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Canada and the World, page 200

Mandarinize2

verbMandarinize (third-person singular simple present Mandarinizes, present participle Mandarinizing, simple past and past participle Mandarinized)

present singular third person Mandarinizes · participle present Mandarinizing · participle past Mandarinized · past Mandarinized

  1. transitiveTo make something or someone Mandarin.

Origin

mandarinize · verb

From mandarin + -ize.

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Mandarinize · verb

From Mandarin + -ize.

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Cite this entry
APA

mandarinize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mandarinize

MLA

“mandarinize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mandarinize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mandarinize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mandarinize.

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