externalize
verbEtymology From external + -ize.
1
To make something external or objective.
2
To represent something abstract or intangible as material; to embody.
3
Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences To attribute emotions etc to external circumstances; to project.
4
Economics, Sciences To direct to others, as costs or benefits.
- Offering high-quality software as open-source externalizes benefits to a large community, but also externalizes much of the cost of testing and further development.
- Operating a low-cost, high-pollution manufacturing process externalizes costs in the form of adverse human health consequences and ecosystem effects.
- Derived terms
- externalizable, externalization, externalizer, unexternalized