acronymize

verb

acronymize

verb

Etymology From acronym + -ize.

1

To turn a phrase into an acronym.

  • 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 […]2013, Michael Billig, Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences, page 89:
Derived terms
acronymization
Related terms
acronymist

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