chickenize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make chicken-like or suitable for chickens. transitive
  2. To make (an industry or field of commerce) into a vertically and horizontally integrated industry. intransitive,transitive,uncommon
    — To compete with the chicken industry, hog and cattle producers could follow the model that Moeller was slowly building for pig farms. They could chickenize.

词形变化

chickenizes present,singular,third-person chickenizing participle,present chickenized participle,past chickenized past

词汇关系

衍生词
chickenization
相关词
get big or get out

词源

From chicken + -ize. In the business sense popularized by American journalist Christopher Leonard in the context of the US poultry industry, where just a few companies control almost all aspects of chicken production, such as feed, medicines, and chicken houses. This model was later followed by other industries (they chickenized).
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