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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: equip with armed and armored motor vehicles; "mechanize armies" [syn: mechanize, mechanise, motorize, motorise]
2: make monotonous; make automatic or routine; "If your work becomes too mechanized, change jobs!" [syn: mechanize, mechanise]
3: make mechanical; "mechanize the procedure" [syn: mechanize, mechanise]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-nized; -nizing) Date: 1678 1. to make mechanical; especially to make automatic or routine 2. a. to equip with machinery especially to replace human or animal labor b. to equip with armed and armored motor vehicles c. to provide with mechanical power 3. to produce by or as if by machine • mechanizable adjective • mechanization noun • mechanizer noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also -ise) 1 give a mechanical character to. 2 introduce machines in. 3 Mil. equip with tanks, armoured cars, etc. (orig. as a substitute for horse-drawn vehicles and cavalry). Derivatives: mechanization n. mechanizer n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mechanize Mech"an*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mechanized; p. pr. & vb. n. Mechanizing.] [Cf. F. m['e]chaniser.] To cause to be mechanical. --Shelley.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(mechanizes, mechanizing, mechanized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'mechanise' If someone mechanizes a process, they cause it to be done by a machine or machines, when it was previously done by people. Only gradually are technologies being developed to mechanize the task... VERB: V n • mechanized ...highly mechanised production methods. ADJ • mechanization Mechanization happened years ago on the farms of Islay.