Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To separate, classify, or package in discrete units.
- transitive verb To make or transform into a single unit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form into or reduce to a unit; make a unit of; cause to be one.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To reduce to a unit, or one whole; to form into a unit; to unify.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To manage as a unit
- verb To convert, package, or organize into one or more units
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make into a unit
- verb divide (bulk material) and process as units
- verb separate or classify into units
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Examples
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I admit my company sells stretch film and I suspect many may categorize it as a necessary evil because it is an excellent way to unitize and protect a load during shipment.
Secondary Packaging – The Silent Killer of the Environment 2008
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I admit my company sells stretch film and I suspect many may categorize it as a necessary evil because it is an excellent way to unitize and protect a load during shipment.
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I admit my company sells stretch film and I suspect many may categorize it as a necessary evil because it is an excellent way to unitize and protect a load during shipment.
Dennis Salazar 2009
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We can also do this if we allow cattle to graze between plantings and fertilize that way – but this will require scaling back from current industrial processes that unitize production functions and instead to reintegrate, say, dairy and grain production.
Francois and Dano on Agricultural Yields « Climate Audit 2006
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The more individuality and complexity have threatened to outreach the mental powers and become unmanageable, the more have order and organization shown their ability to subordinate and unitize the seeming diversity of elements.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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There is no presiding power to rule and subordinate the tumultuous and refractory elements of his character, and thus unitize the mental organism and its manifestations.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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In addition, healthy growth for warehouse clubs and home center stores will bode well for demand for paperboard edge protection products, which are used by these establishments to unitize and stack pallets.
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The lease allowed Shell to pool or unitize its interests.
The Energy Law Blog Robert Theriot 2010
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One final note on slide 16 before I turn the presentation back over to John, here we present our diluted earnings per share calculation as reported and on a pro forma basis, so that you can visualize the impact of recent changes that were made to de-unitize the ownership of Calamos Holdings, LLC.
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009
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I am pointing out that Iran does not need to sell ownership and control of its natural resources to multinationals when it can simply unitize and sell forward part of its production to investors, receiving interest-free finance in return.
P2P Foundation 2008
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