decasualize

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English

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Etymology

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From de- +‎ casual +‎ -ize.

Verb

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decasualize (third-person singular simple present decasualizes, present participle decasualizing, simple past and past participle decasualized)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To eliminate casual labour from.
    • 1944, The Labour Gazette, volume 44, page 720:
      In some areas they have attempted to decasualize certain types of employment and to control street-trading by a local licensing system requiring juveniles to obtain their licences through the committees.