conventionalise

English

Etymology

conventional + -ise

Verb

conventionalise (third-person singular simple present conventionalises, present participle conventionalising, simple past and past participle conventionalised)

  1. Alternative spelling of conventionalize
    • 2008, Ruth Wodak, Veronika Koller, Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere, page 256:
      Speeches during parliamentary debates, however, belong to linguistic action patterns in which interruptions and hecklings (Burkhardt 2004) are generally conventionalised and accepted as facultative reactions []
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