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journalize

[ jur-nl-ahyz ]

verb (used with object)

journalized, journalizing.
  1. to tell or relate as one would in keeping a journal.
  2. to enter or record in a journal.
  3. (in double-entry bookkeeping) to enter in a journal, preparatory to posting to the ledger.


verb (used without object)

journalized, journalizing.
  1. to keep or make entries in a journal.

journalize

/ ˈdʒɜːnəˌlaɪz /

verb

  1. to record (daily events) in a journal
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌjournaliˈzation, noun
  • ˈjournalˌizer, noun
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Other Words From

  • journal·i·zation noun
  • journal·izer noun
  • un·journal·ized adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of journalize1

First recorded in 1760–70; journal + -ize
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Example Sentences

Your most cost effective strategy will likely be to keep the detailed historical data in your old system for reference purposes and just journalize your opening general ledger into the new system.

From Forbes

Journalize: Maintaining a journal helps you keep your successes and failures in their proper perspective.

From Inc

Lovecraft’s language “fails” only insofar as the narrators fail to get into words, to journalize, some experience that simply cannot be fully available to the meager human senses and mind.

From Salon

The elder of these two was a bachelor; the younger was a student from the Missionaries' College at Batavia; but the junior was named to head the enterprise, because he had previously displayed zeal and ability, and also because he could write English fluently, and would journalize in that language.

I must close this at once; there's no use in my trying to journalize any longer, for events follow too fast for recording; besides, Tom, in the midst of all my happiness there comes a dash of sadness across me that I am so soon to part with one so dear to me!

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