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
Companionship services are fragmented, hard to standardize, and vulnerable to safety concerns.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 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
Liens are recorded in state Uniform Commercial Code databases across the country, with the public filings intended to standardize interstate transactions and alert creditors about business debts and financial obligations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 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
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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
The resolution, she said, standardizes the exemption and will help speed efforts by humanitarian workers to provide aid to people.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
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
Headquartered in Geneva, ISO standardizes everything from the dimensions of cotton bales to the proper transport of uncrewed spacecraft.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 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
There is no standardized US national teaching of 9/11, when 2,977 people died including the passengers and crew of four hijacked planes, victims in New York's Twin Towers, firefighters, and personnel at the Pentagon.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Over the course of 20 years, students who had attended public school pre-K4 earned higher grades and scored better on standardized tests throughout their school years.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
But there is no standardized public key for deciphering them; codes vary among plants and products, and the absence of an obvious “TF” is no guarantee Taylor Farms wasn’t involved.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Protect College Sports Act aims to create a more standardized college sports economy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Early states had state religions and standardized temples.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
The next phase of research will focus on evaluating the method in people while also expanding and standardizing production.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2026
McTaggart sees real potential for AI in the administrative side of agency work — organizing offers, standardizing contracts, aggregating sales data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
The makers have, however, succeeded in standardizing their machines to a degree.
From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller
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