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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛkənaɪz/
- Hyphenation: mech‧an‧ize
Verb
mechanize (third-person singular simple present mechanizes, present participle mechanizing, simple past and past participle mechanized)
- To equip something with machinery.
- To equip a military unit with tanks and other armed vehicles.
- To make something routine, automatic or monotonous.
1960 June 3 [1960 April 6], “Technical Revolution Promoted in Bureaus”, in Weekly Report on Communist China, number 28, Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, translation of original by Jen-min Yu-tian, →OCLC, page 16:The engineering department of the Sinkiang Posts and Telecommunications Control Bureau fully utilized both native and foreign methods to carry out innovation and technical revolution. About 80 percent of its line work are now mechanized. A remote control switch for the radio transmitter was test-produced by the Kashgar and A-k'o-su bureaus.
Translations
military: to equip with vehicles
to make something routine, automatic or monotonous