Taylorize

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verb

To make more efficient by means of Taylorism.

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Meanings

verbTaylorize (third-person singular simple present Taylorizes, present participle Taylorizing, simple past and past participle Taylorized)

present singular third person Taylorizes · participle present Taylorizing · participle past Taylorized · past Taylorized

  1. transitiveTo make more efficient by means of Taylorism.

    Nervousness, fatigue, brain-exhaustion . . . had her fight against them been vain? What was the use of all the months and years of patient Taylorized effort against the natural human fate: against anxiety, sorrow, old age—if their menace was to reappear whenever events slipped from her control?

    1927, Edith Wharton, 'Twilight Sleep', Virago: London, 1996, p. 114

Origin

From Taylor + -ize.

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APA

Taylorize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Taylorize

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“Taylorize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Taylorize. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Taylorize,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Taylorize.

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