Taylorize
English
Etymology
Taylor + -ize
Verb
Taylorize (third-person singular simple present Taylorizes, present participle Taylorizing, simple past and past participle Taylorized)
- To make more efficient, after the theories of F. W. Taylor, an early proponent of the Efficiency Movement, which, in early 20th-century industrialized nations, sought to identify and eliminate waste in all areas of the economy and society, to develop and implement best practices, and which promised growth as a reward for effective, dynamic management.
- 1927, Edith Wharton, 'Twilight Sleep', Virago: London, 1996, p. 114
- Nervousness, fatigue, brain-exhaustion . . . had her fight against them been vain? What was the use of all the months and years of patient Taylorized effort against the natural human fate: against anxiety, sorrow, old age—if their menace was to reappear whenever events slipped from her control?
- 1927, Edith Wharton, 'Twilight Sleep', Virago: London, 1996, p. 114