Taylorize

English

Etymology

From Taylor +‎ -ize.

Verb

Taylorize (third-person singular simple present Taylorizes, present participle Taylorizing, simple past and past participle Taylorized)

1. (transitive) To make more efficient by means of Taylorism.
   • 1927, Edith Wharton, 'Twilight Sleep', Virago: London, 1996, p. 114

     Nervousness, fatigue, brain-exhaustion . . . had her fight against them been vain? What was the use of all the months and years of patient Taylorized effort against the natural human fate: against anxiety, sorrow, old age—if their menace was to reappear whenever events slipped from her control?