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单词 automobilize
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automobilizev.

Brit. /ɔːtəʊˈməʊbᵻlʌɪz/, /ɔːtəʊˈməʊbl̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌɔdoʊˈmoʊbəlaɪz/, /ˌɔdəˈmoʊbəlaɪz/, /ˌɑdoʊˈmoʊbəlaɪz/, /ˌɑdəˈmoʊbəlaɪz/
Forms: 1900s– automobilized, 1900s– automobilised.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: automobile n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < automobile n. + -ize suffix. Compare slightly earlier automobilized adj.
Originally and chiefly U.S.
1. transitive. To convey by automobile. Also intransitive: to travel by automobile. rare.
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1902 [see automobilizing n. at Derivatives].
1903 Logansport (Indiana) Daily Reporter 15 May 1/4 (heading) Smith was automobilized.
1950 M. M. Musselman Get Horse! x. 138 To automobilize down Fifth Avenue.
2. transitive. To provide or equip with automobiles; spec. to provide (a place) with motor vehicles and a suitable road system; to accustom (a place's population) to the use of motor vehicles.
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1915 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos-Reporter 10 Aug. 3/3 The proposition to automobilize the rural free delivery system of the post-office department is meeting with a great deal of opposition throughout the country.
1934 Newark (New Jersey) Advocate 7 July 4/2 Automobilizing the country seems to be more popular in Ohio.
1957 F. S. Chapin Urban Land Use Planning xii. 320 Even if..every person entering the CBD daily had an automobile enabling him to make the trip by car, the overall costs for completely ‘automobilizing’ the CBD would be astronomical.
1985 N.Y. Times 10 Feb. 221 (heading) Would America have been automobilized in a free market?
2006 J. L. Collier Automobile v. 84 In New York the effort to ‘automobilize’ the city was not led by car makers, but by a brilliant, power-hungry city planner.

Derivatives

autoˈmobilizing n. rare
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1902 N.Y. Times 26 Mar. 8 Imprisonment should also be the penalty of furious automobilizing.
1924 Bismark (N. Dakota) Tribune 28 May 5/4 The government authorities are taking defensive measures against the excessive automobilizing of the country.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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