Mandarinize
verbEtymology From Mandarin + -ize.
1
To make something or someone Mandarin.
- Derived terms
- Mandarinization
- Related terms
- sinicize
mandarinize
verbalso spelled MandarinizeEtymology From mandarin + -ize.
1
To adapt for the use of government bureaucrats, or mandarins.
- Kojève […] sought to depoliticize and “mandarinize” the process through economic arrangements […]2012, Will Kymlicka, Kathryn Walker, Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Canada and the World, page 200: