automate
verbUK /ˈɔːtəmeɪt/ · US /ˈɔ.təˌmeɪt/
Etymology Back-formation from automation.
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Ambitransitive To replace or enhance human labor with machines.
- Many offices still need to automate.
- We saved time and money by automating the process.
1 more example
- In the early '60's a Yoyodyne executive living near L.A. and located someplace in the corporate root-system above supervisor but below vice-president, found himself, at age 39, automated out of a job.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 83:
- Synonyms
- robotize
- Derived terms
- automatability, automatise, informate, semiautomate
- Related terms
- automat, automatable, automatic, automation, automatization, automatize, automaton