productivize
English
Alternative forms
- productivise (British)
Etymology
productive + -ize
Verb
productivize (third-person singular simple present productivizes, present participle productivizing, simple past and past participle productivized)
- (transitive) To render productive. [20c.]
- 2017, Clinton, Maggie, chapter 4, in Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937, Durham and London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2016043541, page 130:
- Via campaigns to militarize, aestheticize, and productivize everyday life, the minds and bodies of Chinese citizens would become accustomed to the temporal rhythms of mechanized factory and agricultural work, and ever prepared to mobilize against domestic and foreign enemies.