Algerianize

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Algerian +‎ -ize

Verb[edit]

Algerianize (third-person singular simple present Algerianizes, present participle Algerianizing, simple past and past participle Algerianized)

  1. to make Algerian.
    • 1969, United States Joint Publications Research Service, Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa, page 18:
      As regards the secondary level, we have started to Algerianize texts and we have already brought out history and French books as well as two geography books for the first four years of secondary education.
    • 2003, Damtew Teferra, Philip G. Altbach, African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook, page 153:
      This excessive zeal to Algerianize education employment has in some cases prevented recruitment of needed and better qualified non-Algerians
    • 2013, Aleya Rouchdy, Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic, Routledge, →ISBN, page 247:
      A common game played by bilinguals is to Algerianize French words, and Frenchify AA words.