idiomatization

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noun

The process of making a term idiomatic

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Meanings

nounidiomatization (plural idiomatizations)

plural idiomatizations

  1. The process of making a term idiomatic

    On the other hand, the only processes that could directly give a sentence new meanings (idiomatization, stipulation) would not give its components new meanings.

    2007 August 15, Wayne A. Davis, “Replies to Green, Szabó, Jeshion, and Siebel”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 137, number 3, →DOI
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