"optionalize" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "optional",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "optional + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From optional + -ize.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "optionalizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "optionalizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "optionalized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "optionalized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "optionalize (third-person singular simple present optionalizes, present participle optionalizing, simple past and past participle optionalized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ize",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968, Teacher Education - Issues 1-6, page 36:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, National Conference on Social Welfare, The Social Welfare Forum, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Charles W. Colson, God and Government, →ISBN, page 24:",
          "text": "But I think we need to optionalize contingencies.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Noam Scheiber, The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Small business lending programs, proposed bank fees; whatever the decision, Geithner was a man determined to optionalize.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Aaron James Wendland, Christopher Merwin, Christos Hadjioannou, Heidegger on Technology, →ISBN:",
          "text": "But it does mean that they experience a demand to optionalize each and every one of them.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make optional; to add as an option, permit to be optionally omitted, or provide various options for implementing."
      ],
      "id": "en-optionalize-en-verb-lFHWA2yf",
      "links": [
        [
          "optional",
          "optional"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "optionalize"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "optional",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "optional + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From optional + -ize.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "optionalizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "optionalizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "optionalized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "optionalized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "optionalize (third-person singular simple present optionalizes, present participle optionalizing, simple past and past participle optionalized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ize",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968, Teacher Education - Issues 1-6, page 36:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, National Conference on Social Welfare, The Social Welfare Forum, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Charles W. Colson, God and Government, →ISBN, page 24:",
          "text": "But I think we need to optionalize contingencies.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Noam Scheiber, The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Small business lending programs, proposed bank fees; whatever the decision, Geithner was a man determined to optionalize.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Aaron James Wendland, Christopher Merwin, Christos Hadjioannou, Heidegger on Technology, →ISBN:",
          "text": "But it does mean that they experience a demand to optionalize each and every one of them.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make optional; to add as an option, permit to be optionally omitted, or provide various options for implementing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "optional",
          "optional"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "optionalize"
}