Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make common.
- To eat at a table in common: same as common, v. i., 4. [Rare.]
- Also spelled
commonise .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
similar two or moredifferences by way ofintentional process . - verb To
deprecate theimportance of, or makeordinary , anoun or nouns.
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Examples
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As it is being applied today, unlimited immigration is being applied as a method of labor arbitrage to commonize costs and privatize profits.
Borjas: What's His Problem?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Smart makers are figuring this out now, and at least attempting to commonize vehicle platforms, but that will take time as well.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the New Auto Emission & Efficiency Standards: 2009
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In the RF world, we have no such indicator (Ed: You can tell commons from propretized spectrum by watching the band over time -- if it's being used, all the time, it's commons; if it's sitting fallow, it's property) Also, what about the 9/10s of the world who won't agree with the US's decision to propretize or commonize the spectrum?
Boing Boing: February 23, 2003 - March 1, 2003 Archives 2003
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Any dressing of my head would commonize the whole thing.
Daisy 1868
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Any dressing of my head would commonize the whole thing.
Daisy Susan Warner 1852
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Bruce Allan (5): e1000e: call pci_save_state () after pci_restore_state () e1000e: don't accumulate PHY statistics on PHY read failure e1000e: perform 10/100 adaptive IFS only on parts that support it e1000e: e1000e_enable_tx_pkt_filtering () returns wrong value e1000e: fix and commonize code for setting the receive address registers
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Bruce Allan (5): e1000e: call pci_save_state () after pci_restore_state () e1000e: don't accumulate PHY statistics on PHY read failure e1000e: perform 10/100 adaptive IFS only on parts that support it e1000e: e1000e_enable_tx_pkt_filtering () returns wrong value e1000e: fix and commonize code for setting the receive address registers
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Bruce Allan (5): e1000e: call pci_save_state () after pci_restore_state () e1000e: don't accumulate PHY statistics on PHY read failure e1000e: perform 10/100 adaptive IFS only on parts that support it e1000e: e1000e_enable_tx_pkt_filtering () returns wrong value e1000e: fix and commonize code for setting the receive address registers
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Bruce Allan (5): e1000e: call pci_save_state () after pci_restore_state () e1000e: don't accumulate PHY statistics on PHY read failure e1000e: perform 10/100 adaptive IFS only on parts that support it e1000e: e1000e_enable_tx_pkt_filtering () returns wrong value e1000e: fix and commonize code for setting the receive address registers
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"If we can commonize equipment designs, we can get to the point where the design that one person builds uses the same cylinder as the design that I build."
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