optionalize

Definitions

To make optional; to add as an option, permit to be optionally omitted, or provide various options for implementing.

Examples

“It seems easier to optionalize or abandon a subject altogether than to provide⟳ opportunities for small group discussion guided by faculty in the security of a laboratory type⟳ of environment.”

“If societies can come⟳ to accept⟳ (value) and optionalize (permit⟳) ethnolinguistic diversity, so that some can treasure it for maintenance purposes, others for enrichment, and others for transitional purposes, I am sure that bilingual education will quickly become⟳ what it should be: an internally diversified alternative kind of education for those who want⟳ it.”

“But I think⟳ we need⟳ to optionalize contingencies.”

“Small business lending programs, proposed bank fees; whatever the decision, Geithner was a man determined to optionalize.”

“But it does mean⟳ that they experience⟳ a demand⟳ to optionalize each and every one of them.”

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