Meanings
present singular third person hotelizes · participle present hotelizing · participle past hotelized · past hotelized
- ergativetransitiveTo make into, or similar to, a hotel.
[…] and there is nothing to be seen there except Mr. Franck's hotel, a fine old palace of the kind which hotelize so well.
1886, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page 5512 more examples
This, we believe was the first hospital to hotelize its rooms, and, quoting again from THE HOTEL MONTHLY (this from the issue of May 1924): "One of the great movements of today is the hotelizing of hospitals."
1937, John Willy, Hotel Monthly, volume 45, page 14The former Kolb's is now slated for renovation into a hotel, joining the modern corner structure, which was hotelized in 2000 […]
Richard Campanella, Time and Place in New Orleans: Past Geographies in the Present Day (page 107)
Origin
From hotel + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hospitalize.
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