commonise
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]commonise (third-person singular simple present commonises, present participle commonising, simple past and past participle commonised)
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of commonize.
- 2004, “The Car Industry: Fighting Back”, in The Economist:
- “The trick is not to commonise the wrong bits in different models. You commonise parts such as batteries and alternators, not things the customer can see, like the window switches.”
- 2003, Paul Bott, Formula Racing at Birmingham[1]:
- Special new fasteners are being introduced on the new car to hold it together better than ever. To simplify design and ease of maintenance I eventually hope to commonise and standardise all fasteners on the car.