idiomatization

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idiomatization (plural idiomatizations)

  1. The process of making a term idiomatic
    • 2007 August 15, Wayne A. Davis, “Replies to Green, Szabó, Jeshion, and Siebel”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 137, number 3, →DOI:
      On the other hand, the only processes that could directly give a sentence new meanings (idiomatization, stipulation) would not give its components new meanings.