to codify
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6.8
- verb
- /ˈkɒdɪfaɪ/
- Formal
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codificar
- To ensure consistency, we need to codify the procedures that everyone should follow.
- codify laws
- codified rules
- codify the principles
The Jews and Chinese codified every human situation.
- The Jews and Chinese codified every human situation.
- That's where this methodology that I uncovered, discovered, codified comes into play.
- They had through, you know, decades of research, quantifying it and then codifying it into a therapy method.
- And so, so right now, the next few steps, aside from making the commitment to do so, we passed a resolution sort of codifying that commitment.
- Today we can take a routine job codified in a set of machine readable instructions and then replicate it a million times.
- And this is a quote Biden will codify protections to safeguard children to make sure their treatment is consistent within their best interest.
Examples
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The committee worked hard to codify the existing regulations into a clear and accessible format.
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So even the first attempt to codify that was a mess.
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A "farm bill," which should really be called a "food bill," codifies the rules of the entire food economy.
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All I did was codify it, and it's probably the world's simplest idea.
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It is something that had we enough information, we could actually codify into a vast database.
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And so, so right now, the next few steps, aside from making the commitment to do so, we passed a resolution sort of codifying that commitment.
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In the twentieth century, these liberties have been codified by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Academic text (1993) -
Policy-makers want to make unambiguous, defensible decisions, which are often codified into laws and regulations.
Academic text (1992) -
The new legislation aims to codify privacy rights for individuals into law.
Synonyms
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4.9
To make something official by following rules, often with a written agreement
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6.7
To arrange things or ideas according to a plan
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5.8
To arrange things in a clear, planned order
To show something in a simple picture or plan
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Etymology
Codify comes from the Latin word codex, meaning 'book', and is the same root as the familiar word code. So to codify is to put laws or rules into an ordered 'book' or system, which is why it means arranging rules or information into a clear code.