cross-fertilise

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English

Etymology

From cross- +‎ fertilise.

Verb

cross-fertilise (third-person singular simple present cross-fertilises, present participle cross-fertilising, simple past and past participle cross-fertilised)

  1. (British spelling) Alternative form of cross-fertilize.
    • 2024 February 7, Lee Waters tells Conrad Landin, “A mission to improve transport for Wales”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 34:
      "And the mindset of a silo of rail engineers, and a silo of highway engineers, and a silo of bus experts, and a silo of active travel people, you're not going to integrate just because you put them in one organisation.
      "You have to actively look at ways to cross-fertilise that thinking, to get multi-modal projects hard-wired in. And from our view, I see TfW as a behaviour change organisation.