Lexic.us

Definition of Motorize

1. Verb. Equip with a motor vehicle. "The police around here are not motorized and patrol the streets on horseback"

2. Verb. Equip with a motor. "Motorized scooters are now the rage"

3. Verb. Equip with armed and armored motor vehicles. "Mechanize armies"

Definition of Motorize

1. v. t. To substitute motor- driven vehicles, or automobiles, for the horses and horse-drawn vehicles of (a fire department, city, etc.).

Definition of Motorize

1. Verb. (transitive) To fit something with a motor. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To supply something or someone with motor vehicles. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To supply armoured vehicles; to mechanize. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Motorize

1. to equip with motor vehicles [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Motorize

motorik motoring motorings motorisation motorisations motorise motorised motorises motorising motorist

motorists motorium motoriums motorization motorizations motorize (current term) motorized motorized scooter motorized wheelchair motorizes

motorizing motorjet motorless motorlike motorman motormen motormeter motormouth motormouthed motormouths

Literary usage of Motorize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Business Problems of the War by Jonathan Ogden Armour (1917)
"BUSINESS PROBLEMS OF THE WAR DIVERSIFY, FERTILIZE, motorize, SPECIALIZE [From The Saturday Evening Post] THE nation awaits the solution of the food problem. ..."

2. Democracy in Reconstruction by Frederick Albert Cleveland, Joseph Schafer (1919)
"There was only one way out — to motorize. And this decision proved an important ... But the decision to motorize was not all there was to motorization. ..."

3. Fortifications Appropriation Bill, Fiscal Year 1921: Hearings Before the by United States, Congress, Committee on Appropriations, House (1920)
"You have enough of the 5-ton tractors with which to motorize some more, if you desire ? Maj. MOODY. The approved policy of the War Department is that where ..."

4. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1902)
"... practically the same as does a heavy short circuit and there seems to be a strong tendency for part of the generators to motorize, and always slow down. ..."

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