[UK and ANZ] usually -ise [verb] [T] - to use a machine to do something that used to be done by handFarming has been mechanized, reducing the need for labour.One family with mechanized equipment could farm crops formerly requiring 20 families.He said that children growing up in a highly urbanized and mechanized society have little understanding of nature.
MECHANIZE
Meaning of MECHANIZE in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012