renovize

present singular third person renovizes · participle present renovizing · participle past renovized · past renovized · alternative renovise

1. datedTo renovate or modernize.

   To renovize is to be smart, and thrifty, especially at this time. Labor costs and material costs are low.

   1933, Ladies' Home Journal - Volume 50, page 153

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   How can we do our part in assisting in the general recovery of the Country? Renovize, and in so doing we make a good investment for ourselves; put men back to work and get money back into circulation, which in the end will come back to us through other channels.

   1934, Arthur B. Heaton, “Renovize Now and Help in the General Recovery”, in The Octagon, volume 6

   We stand an excellent chance, if we renovize and modernize it — not only to sell it, but to sell it at a price which will show a profit upon the expenditure for the renovization and modernization work.

   1937, American Building Association News - Volume 57, page 374

   Now—I'll read it all— The renovation of the patients' dining room— and this is 1954—that was 1948—did they renovize the patients' dining room for 6 years?

   1958, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Morningside Hospital: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations