sloganizev.
/ˈsləʊɡənʌɪz/ 1. transitive.
a. To make (something) the subject of a slogan; to express in a slogan.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > word or cry > [verb (transitive)] > express in slogan
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1929 Bull. Amer. Library Assoc. Apr. 70 Infected with the economy virus sloganized by recent high national executives.
1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. ii. 39 Round a provincial régime that sloganized the Rights of Man.
1949 Archit. Rev. 105 96/2 To sloganize the present trend in Sweden: ‘Personal, organic creation in a harmonious democracy’—which should be vague enough to please everybody.
1981 Jrnl. Royal United Services Inst. June 7/1 If you try to sloganise it I think it is quite dangerous.
b. To influence by means of slogans.
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the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > subject to propaganda > by pamphlets or slogans
pamphleteer1901
sloganize1954
1954 ADA World Feb. 1 m/1 Of all the economic prescriptions that have been written in Washington in the past 25 years, none is stranger or more dangerous than the current attempt to sloganize the country out of an economic decline.
2. intransitive. To compose slogans, to utter slogans.
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1960 Encounter June 38/1 Mao's ability to sloganise and reduce complex matters to simple formulas has been one of his key assets.
1975 Daily Tel. 24 June 11/2 The conspirators met in a pub and sloganised about tyrants.
Derivatives
ˈsloganized adj. expressed in the form of a slogan or slogans.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > word or cry > [adjective] > of or relating to expressing slogans
sloganizing1940
slogan-shouting1940
sloganeering1941
sloganized1970
1970 Times 31 Mar. (Austral. Suppl.) p. ii/7 Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s Mr. (later Sir) Robert Menzies encapsulated this weltanschauung in the sloganized search for ‘great and powerful friends’.
1975 R. Lewis M. Thatcher v. 42 The manifesto gave an easy sloganised summary of the ‘action’ to which the Party was committing itself.
ˈsloganizer n. a person who uses slogans.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > word or cry > [noun] > slogan or catchword > one who uses
sloganeer1922
sloganizer1974
1974 Daily Tel. 27 June 18 The cliché-ridden sloganisers of the extreme Left.
ˈsloganizing n. and adj.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > word or cry > [adjective] > of or relating to expressing slogans
sloganizing1940
slogan-shouting1940
sloganeering1941
sloganized1970
society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > word or cry > [noun] > slogan or catchword > being expressed in the form of a slogan
sloganizing1940
1940 New Statesman 2 Mar. 274/1 Snappy presentation and slick sloganising.
1965 New Statesman 29 Oct. 660/3 This could become mere sententiousness, the jingling or sloganising final flourish in a poem like ‘Waiting’.
1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 May 548/1 The success of ‘All You Need is Love’..encouraged the Beatles to try their hand at sloganizing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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