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"Democratize" word meanings from the Oxford dictionary: 1) introduce a democratic system or democratic principles to: public institutions need to be democratiz
by inlineint 10y ago
"Democratize" word meanings from the Oxford dictionary:
1) introduce a democratic system or democratic principles to: public institutions need to be democratized.
2) make (something) accessible to everyone: mass production has not democratized fashion.
The second one seems to be exactly what they say about their system.
- Houshalter 10y agoYes I know they aren't the first person to use the word that way, it still bothers me. I didn't know this abuse had become widespread enough to warrant an addition to the dictionary.
- swsieber 10y agoI think you are mistaken as to the recency of this definiton. According to wikitionary, the definition : "Exhibiting social equality, egalitarian" for the word "democratic" dates back to 1915.
- Houshalter 10y agoI checked wiktionary before posting and did not see that. Where do you see that? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/democratize https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/democratize EDIT: Ah, ok, it's under "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/democratic" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/democratic". But I'm still not seeing 1915 there. EDIT2: Ok it was hidden under an expandable.
- rororororo 10y agoIt bothers me as well...