standardize
Americanverb (used with object)
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standardizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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standardized,
past participle, past
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standardizing
present participle
verb (used without object)
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standardizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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standardized,
past participle, past
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standardizing
present participle
verb
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to make or become standard
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(tr) to test by or compare with a standard
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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nonstandardizationnoun
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prestandardizationnoun
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restandardizationnoun
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standardizationnoun
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standardizernoun
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substandardizationnoun
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prestandardizeverb (used with object)
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restandardizeverb (used with object)
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substandardizeverb (used with object)
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nonstandardizedadjective
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quasi-standardizedadjective
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standardizableadjective
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unstandardizableadjective
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unstandardizedadjective
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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standardizesimple
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standardizessimple
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have standardizedperfect
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has standardizedperfect
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am standardizingprogressive
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are standardizingprogressive
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is standardizingprogressive
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have been standardizingperfect progressive
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has been standardizingperfect progressive
Past
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standardizedsimple
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had standardizedperfect
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was standardizingprogressive
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were standardizingprogressive
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had been standardizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of standardize
Explanation
To standardize something is to make it fit a certain guideline or requirement. If a school decides to standardize its grading system, it makes sure every teacher gives grades in exactly the same way. Use the verb standardize to describe what an organization or company does when it makes a product or rule conform to a certain model. Often, to standardize things is to make them all exactly the same. When a city standardizes all its playground equipment, every park begins to look alike, with the same slides, swings, and sandboxes.
Vocabulary lists containing standardize
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Example Sentences
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Texas Instruments teamed up with math educators and textbook publishers to create an ecosystem for teacher training programs and instruction materials that would seamlessly standardize TI across American classrooms.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
“We will take this as a lesson to further standardize our business processes, as well as optimize and upgrade our operations,” the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
On its most recent earnings call, the company said it would invest several hundred million dollars to standardize its business on a global platform.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
With AI highlighting nuances between role titles and the actual skills necessary and tasks performed, companies can then begin to standardize roles to help support business operations and career trajectories.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 13, 2026
Agents were now expected to standardize the way they filed their case reports, on single sheets of paper.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
It standardizes production where possible, which lowers lead times and manufacturing costs, and its boats are smaller and cheaper to run.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
The latest development is a new rule that simplifies and standardizes the requirements for retrofits, said URM program manager Amanda Hertzfeld.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
The C.D.C. now has a similar process: The agency collects data from hospitals, counties and states, and then it standardizes and reports the data to the public.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
This latest iteration of Thread standardizes border routers so that companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google can produce them in a way that device vendors can rely on.
From The Verge ● Jul. 19, 2022
The clock standardizes our subjective tempos and we control ourselves by the clock.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
Following the same standardized method, 1,000 volunteers buried more than 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear and 12,000 tea bags at roughly 1,000 sites across Switzerland.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
They standardized on this particular uniform because everyone had different ideas of what they wanted to wear onstage and they didn’t want audiences to think they were a glam band or, worse.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
The Protect College Sports Act aims to create a more standardized college sports economy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Not everybody aces every Advanced Placement exam, though overwhelmingly they pass the state’s standardized tests, and according to Success Academy every graduate in recent years has been accepted to a four-year college.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Although those Africans of 100,000 years ago had more modern skeletons than did their Neanderthal contemporaries, they made essentially the same crude stone tools as Neanderthals, still lacking standardized shapes.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Many in the industry have touted federal intervention as a way to “save” college sports by standardizing how recruitment and payment of athletes work.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
"That means sugar yields fluctuate... and that means alcohol output changes. So standardizing production becomes difficult. Mexico solved this over decades through selective breeding. India hasn't yet," he says.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
Most would do so by standardizing or trimming regulation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
The PCAOB’s findings led EY to improve the quality of its U.S. audit work, which centered on standardizing its approach and building centralized teams to provide audit support.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025
The Children's Bureau is preëminently a standardizing body, although with no power to issue or enforce decrees.
From The Family and it's Members by Anna Garlin Spencer
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