quislingize

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verb

To corrupt by getting a significant number of members to collaborate with an enemy occupying force.

Scrabble 30

Meanings

verbquislingize (third-person singular simple present quislingizes, present participle quislingizing, simple past and past participle quislingized)

present singular third person quislingizes · participle present quislingizing · participle past quislingized · past quislingized · alternative quislingise

  1. datedTo corrupt by getting a significant number of members to collaborate with an enemy occupying force.

    Norway was the scene of the original Quisling experiment and because of Norway's highly perfected state form it seemed a simple matter to quislingize the Norwegian educational system.

    1942, Air-Mail Feature and Radio Service, page 10
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    It has been a consistent policy of the Nazis to choose men of no ability to quislingize the countries marked out for invasion, because whatever honesty such men may have they are too flattered by their elevation to scan assurances too closely.

    1943, Joseph McCabe, The Papacy in Politics Today, page 58

    Then, in September 1942, Quisling's cherished plans for a 'cooporative' parliament had been completely thwarted by mass resignations from the trade unions (which he had earlier taken over and 'quislingized') in protest against his decree of 10 September 1942 making membership of these unions compulsory.

    1952, Arnold Toynbee, Survey of International Affairs, 1939-1946 - Volume 4, page 542
  2. datedTo collaborate with an enemy occupying force.

    At most a few dozen individuals, mostly with a prewar Fascist history, have quislingized

    1998, George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945

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