standardize

[ stan-der-dahyz ]

/ ˈstæn dərˌdaɪz /

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verb (used with object), stand·ard·ized, stand·ard·iz·ing.

to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.

to compare with or test by a standard.

to choose or establish a standard for.

verb (used without object), stand·ard·ized, stand·ard·iz·ing.

to become standardized.

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Also especially British, stand·ard·ise .

Origin of standardize

First recorded in 1870–75; standard + -ize

OTHER WORDS FROM standardize

stand·ard·iz·a·ble, adjectivestand·ard·i·za·tion, nounstand·ard·iz·er, nounnon·stand·ard·i·za·tion, noun

non·stand·ard·ized, adjectivepre·stand·ard·i·za·tion, nounpre·stand·ard·ize, verb (used with object), pre·stand·ard·ized, pre·stand·ard·iz·ing.qua·si-stand·ard·ized, adjectivere·stand·ard·i·za·tion, nounre·stand·ard·ize, verb (used with object), re·stand·ard·ized, re·stand·ard·iz·ing.sub·stand·ard·i·za·tion, nounsub·stand·ard·ize, verb (used with object), sub·stand·ard·ized, sub·stand·ard·iz·ing.un·stand·ard·iz·a·ble, adjectiveun·stand·ard·ized, adjective

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How to use standardize in a sentence

The World Economic Forum, working with the Big Four accounting firms, recently published a new report that seeks to standardize stakeholder capitalism reporting on environment, social, and governance goals.
Are you ready for a stakeholder-driven world?|Ellen McGirt|September 28, 2020|Fortune
This method of training is not standardized, it is not measurable, and it is extremely challenging to establish accountability for errors in the field.
Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them.|by Janet Wilson, The Desert Sun, and Lylla Younes, ProPublica|September 18, 2020|ProPublica
To make matters simpler, GM is standardizing the components it will use to build what promises to be a wide variety of vehicles.
This is GM’s new series of Ultium Drive electric motors|Jonathan M. Gitlin|September 17, 2020|Ars Technica
Instead, create guidelines to objectify and standardize job performance expectations.
How to be a fair-pay CEO|matthewheimer|August 25, 2020|Fortune

Ofqal then standardized grades using an algorithm based on students’ past achievements and their schools’ past performance.
France has a lesson for the UK in giving fair grades during a pandemic|Annabelle Timsit|August 19, 2020|Quartz
Second, many other democracies standardize administration of their national elections.
Too Soon For 2016! How To End Our Endless Presidential Election Season|Raymond A. Smith|January 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Where several variant spellings were used, the most prevalent version was use to standardize them.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
In his view there was room for universities of different types; to standardize them would be a blunder, almost a crime.
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. IV of IV.|Charles L. Graves
To standardize procedure, as well as to eliminate delay, was the purpose of the President in the plan for the Commerce Court.
Railroads: Rates and Regulations|William Z. Ripley
Professing the ideal and proposing to recreate the Universe, the New Freedom, as it calls itself, would standardize it.
Marse Henry (Vol. 2)|Henry Watterson
For exact quantitative determination it is necessary to standardize the solution with pure anhydrous dextrose.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887|Various

British Dictionary definitions for standardize

standardize

standardise

/ (ˈstændəˌdaɪz) /

verb

to make or become standard

(tr) to test by or compare with a standard

Derived forms of standardize

standardization or standardisation, nounstandardizer or standardiser, noun

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standardise

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