Chickenize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To make chicken-like or suitable for chickens. transitive
- 2 To make (an industry or field of commerce) into a vertically and horizontally integrated industry. intransitive, transitive, uncommon
"To compete with the chicken industry, hog and cattle producers could follow the model that Moeller was slowly building for pig farms. They could chickenize."
Example
More examples"To compete with the chicken industry, hog and cattle producers could follow the model that Moeller was slowly building for pig farms. They could chickenize."
Etymology
From chicken + -ize. In the business sense popularized by American journalist Christopher Leonard in the context of the US poultry industry, where just a few companies control almost all aspects of chicken production, such as feed, medicines, and chicken houses. This model was later followed by other industries (they chickenized).
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