Meaning of optionalize | Babel Free

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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