renovize
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From re- + novel + -ize, Coined in connection with various community campaigns in the early 1930s that attempted to stimulate the building trades.
Verb
[edit]renovize (third-person singular simple present renovizes, present participle renovizing, simple past and past participle renovized)
- (dated) To renovate or modernize.
- 1933, Ladies' Home Journal - Volume 50, page 153:
- To renovize is to be smart, and thrifty, especially at this time. Labor costs and material costs are low.
- 1934, Arthur B. Heaton, “Renovize Now and Help in the General Recovery”, in The Octagon, volume 6:
- How can we do our part in assisting in the general recovery of the Country? Renovize, and in so doing we make a good investment for ourselves; put men back to work and get money back into circulation, which in the end will come back to us through other channels.
- 1937, American Building Association News - Volume 57, page 374:
- We stand an excellent chance, if we renovize and modernize it — not only to sell it, but to sell it at a price which will show a profit upon the expenditure for the renovization and modernization work.
- 1958, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Morningside Hospital: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations:
- Now—I'll read it all— The renovation of the patients' dining room— and this is 1954—that was 1948—did they renovize the patients' dining room for 6 years?