mandarinize
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See also: Mandarinize
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mandarinize (third-person singular simple present mandarinizes, present participle mandarinizing, simple past and past participle mandarinized)
- (transitive) To adapt for the use of government bureaucrats, or mandarins.
- 2012, Will Kymlicka, Kathryn Walker, Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Canada and the World, page 200:
- Kojève […] sought to depoliticize and “mandarinize” the process through economic arrangements […]