Acronymize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To turn a phrase into an acronym. transitive

    "A sole professor, who has failed to attract recruits, does not need to acronymize the creations of their own making. But the existence of a capitalized acronym announces that the world is taking seriously an approach or topic […]"

Example

More examples

"A sole professor, who has failed to attract recruits, does not need to acronymize the creations of their own making. But the existence of a capitalized acronym announces that the world is taking seriously an approach or topic […]"

Etymology

From acronym + -ize.

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