mandarinize

See also: Mandarinize

English

Etymology

From mandarin +‎ -ize.

Verb

mandarinize (third-person singular simple present mandarinizes, present participle mandarinizing, simple past and past participle mandarinized)

1. (transitive) To adapt for the use of government bureaucrats, or mandarins.
   • 2012, Will Kymlicka, Kathryn Walker, Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Canada and the World, page 200:

     Kojève […] sought to depoliticize and “mandarinize” the process through economic arrangements […]