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Favoritize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make a favorite of; to give preference to. transitive

    "Go to the channel you want to "favoritize," and then click the Add button."

  2. 2
    To play favorites. intransitive

    "Regional opposition to this pattern of "favoritizing," as well as protest over the freezing of wages and prices and other emergency economic measures, precipitated a full-scale crisis in Zambia."

  3. 3
    To favor; to encourage. proscribed, rare

    "If he can get Federal assistance for French, panish, German, and now Russian, and can get none for Latin, he is going, almost of necessity, to favoritize the languages in which this assistance and equipment and so forth are present."

Etymology

From favorite + -ize.

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