单词 | amenitize |
释义 | amenitizev. transitive. To make (something) more pleasant or attractive. In later use: to equip (a house, area, etc.) with amenities. Also occasionally (and in earliest use) intransitive. ΚΠ 1926 J. M. Kitchen What it means to Zone 15 Zoning will allow no one to put up a large apartment house overshadowing your home, stealing your sunshine... Zoning stabilizes amenity as due in social equity. Zoning amenitizes. 1961 Times 27 Jan. 8/7 Advertisers [in Manchester] are cooperating in an ‘advertising amenity scheme’ by removing large numbers of signs and resiting others... The association hopes to amenitize much larger areas, both urban and rural. 1983 Register (Orange County, Calif.) 17 July (Real Estate section) f7/1 It would have been so much easier to tear down the old place and start all over..and to amenitize with tiled atria and potted plants in the fashion of today's instant architecture. 1989 Washington Post 1 Jan. b7/3 A new residential community has been ‘amenitized beyond compare’. 2017 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 15 Sept. (Real Estate section) 1 Our buyers are not as concerned with square footage as they are with how their homes are amenitized... They care about the cabinetry, countertops, appliances and a nice custom shower. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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