mandarinize

See also: Mandarinize

English

Etymology

mandarin +‎ -ize

Verb

mandarinize (third-person singular simple present mandarinizes, present participle mandarinizing, simple past and past participle mandarinized)

  1. (transitive) To adapt for the use of government bureaucrats, or mandarins.
    • 2012, Will Kymlicka, Kathryn Walker, Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Canada and the World, page 200:
      Kojève […] sought to depoliticize and “mandarinize” the process through economic arrangements […]
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