productivize

English

Alternative forms

• productivise (UK)

Etymology

productive +‎ -ize

Verb

productivize (third-person singular simple present productivizes, present participle productivizing, simple past and past participle productivized)

1. (transitive) To render productive. [20c.]
   • 2017, Maggie Clinton, chapter 4, in Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937‎^[1], Durham and London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 130:

     Via campaigns to militarize, aestheticize, and productivize everyday life, the minds and bodies of Chinese citizens would become accustomed to the temporal rhythms of mechanized factory and agricultural work, and ever prepared to mobilize against domestic and foreign enemies.