Cross-fertilise

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of cross-fertilize. UK, alt-of, alternative

    ""And the mindset of a silo of rail engineers, and a silo of highway engineers, and a silo of bus experts, and a silo of active travel people, you're not going to integrate just because you put them in one organisation. "You have to actively look at ways to cross-fertilise that thinking, to get multi-modal projects hard-wired in. And from our view, I see TfW as a behaviour change organisation."

  2. 2
    cause to undergo cross-fertilization wordnet
  3. 3
    undergo cross-fertilization; become fertile wordnet

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""And the mindset of a silo of rail engineers, and a silo of highway engineers, and a silo of bus experts, and a silo of active travel people, you're not going to integrate just because you put them in one organisation. "You have to actively look at ways to cross-fertilise that thinking, to get multi-modal projects hard-wired in. And from our view, I see TfW as a behaviour change organisation."

Etymology

From cross- + fertilise.

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