optionalize

present singular third person optionalizes · participle present optionalizing · participle past optionalized · past optionalized

1. To make optional; to add as an option, permit to be optionally omitted, or provide various options for implementing.

   But I think we need to optionalize contingencies.

   2010, Charles W. Colson, God and Government, →ISBN, page 24

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   It seems easier to optionalize or abandon a subject altogether than to provide opportunities for small group discussion guided by faculty in the security of a laboratory type of environment.

   1968, Teacher Education - Issues 1-6, page 36

   If societies can come to accept (value) and optionalize (permit) ethnolinguistic diversity, so that some can treasure it for maintenance purposes, others for enrichment, and others for transitional purposes, I am sure that bilingual education will quickly become what it should be: an internally diversified alternative kind of education for those who want it.

   1978, National Conference on Social Welfare, The Social Welfare Forum, →ISBN

   Small business lending programs, proposed bank fees; whatever the decision, Geithner was a man determined to optionalize.

   2012, Noam Scheiber, The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery, →ISBN

   But it does mean that they experience a demand to optionalize each and every one of them.

   2018, Aaron James Wendland, Christopher Merwin, Christos Hadjioannou, Heidegger on Technology, →ISBN