单词 | mutualize |
释义 | mutualizev.ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > correlate [verb (transitive)] > reciprocate countervail1583 repay?1586 equalize1598 respond1600 equal1697 mutualize1812 1812 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1813) XVI. 360 Pledges shall have been mutualized, and those solemn assurances reciprocated, which..can only be violated by the unprincipled. 2. transitive. To make mutual in nature; to share out equally between parties; to make equal and reciprocal. ΚΠ 1903 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 11 650 Let us, says M. Bourgeois, mutualize that portion of our prosperity which is of social origin. Let us reduce those inequalities of condition which arise..from the unequal distribution of the risks and advantages of social progress. 1927 New Republic 21 Sept. 110/2 We must either prepare to practise imperialism on a scale never before witnessed, or we must mutualize our relationship to the other American republics. 1937 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Oct. 13/2 Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg..put the Wagner Act..under critical analysis and said it had to be ‘mutualized’, that is, amended to keep it from being a ‘one-way traffic rule..on a four-way street’. 1978 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 92 561 The need for mutualizing risk in the income streams of college educated youth is less obvious than its proponents suggest. 1992 Economist 15 Feb. 105/1 The effect of this week's deal is thus to mutualise some of the Outhwaite losses across Lloyd's. 3. Originally U.S. a. transitive. To organize (a company, etc.) on mutual principles (see mutual adj. 6). ΚΠ 1905 Nation 23 Feb. 147/1 An arrangement to ‘mutualize’ the equitable life became inevitable. 2000 Daily Tel. 23 May 25/6 Was the BBC about to be ‘mutualised’, with viewers becoming stockholders? b. intransitive. Of a company: to reorganize on mutual principles. ΚΠ 1918 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. Apr. 415 The new material in the book includes..the following:..a discussion of the recent tendency of stock companies to mutualize. 1981 P. C. Newman Canad. Establishment II. Epil. 428 Some companies tried beating the bushes for White Knights who would at least offer a more friendly embrace; others decided to mutualize or..swallowed themselves by becoming private. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1812 |
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