decasualize

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verb

To eliminate casual labour from.

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Meanings

verbdecasualize (third-person singular simple present decasualizes, present participle decasualizing, simple past and past participle decasualized)

present singular third person decasualizes · participle present decasualizing · participle past decasualized · past decasualized

  1. ambitransitiveTo eliminate casual labour from.

    In some areas they have attempted to decasualize certain types of employment and to control street-trading by a local licensing system requiring juveniles to obtain their licences through the committees.

    1944, The Labour Gazette, volume 44, page 720

Origin

From de- + casual + -ize.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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