optionalize

English

Etymology

optional +‎ -ize

Verb

optionalize (third-person singular simple present optionalizes, present participle optionalizing, simple past and past participle optionalized)

1. To make optional; to add as an option, permit to be optionally omitted, or provide various options for implementing.
   • 1968, Teacher Education - Issues 1-6, page 36:

     It seems easier to optionalize or abandon a subject altogether than to provide opportunities for small group discussion guided by faculty in the security of a laboratory type of environment.

   • 1978, National Conference on Social Welfare, The Social Welfare Forum, →ISBN:

     If societies can come to accept (value) and optionalize (permit) ethnolinguistic diversity, so that some can treasure it for maintenance purposes, others for enrichment, and others for transitional purposes, I am sure that bilingual education will quickly become what it should be: an internally diversified alternative kind of education for those who want it.

   • 2010, Charles W. Colson, God and Government, →ISBN, page 24:

     But I think we need to optionalize contingencies.

   • 2012, Noam Scheiber, The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery, →ISBN:

     Small business lending programs, proposed bank fees; whatever the decision, Geithner was a man determined to optionalize.

   • 2018, Aaron James Wendland, Christopher Merwin, Christos Hadjioannou, Heidegger on Technology, →ISBN:

     But it does mean that they experience a demand to optionalize each and every one of them.