transcription, транскрипция: [ mekənaɪz ]
( mechanizes, mechanizing, mechanized)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'mechanise'
If someone mechanizes a process, they cause it to be done by a machine or machines, when it was previously done by people.
Only gradually are technologies being developed to mechanize the task...
VERB : V n
• mecha‧nized
...highly mechanised production methods.
ADJ
• mecha‧ni‧za‧tion
Mechanization happened years ago on the farms of Islay.
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