computerization
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- noun
- /kəmˌpjuːtəraɪˈzeɪʃən/
- US
:
informatización
- Long ago, when computerization was not in effect, marketing was done in different ways.
Examples
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The decline in private sector employment has come despite growth in production, partially due to computerization plans that are being accelerated in the name of efficiency and profits.
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The computerization of banking services has made transactions faster and more efficient.
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The computerization of everything will signal the end of computers as we know them.
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Both British and American environmental health officials suffer from a lack of computerization.
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In comparison, the computerization of commercial policies was more difficult and was therefore done gradually.
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Effective inventory management through computerization... will increase our load factor by 5% to 20%.
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Computerization of health activities will likely not address the principal reasons and ways in which health professionals misreport information.
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Accurate radar, weather satellites, telecommunications, and computerization provide meteorologists with masses of information rapidly and constantly.
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Reductions in transport costs, for example through the computerization and faster turnaround time of container ports, also facilitated the outsourcing of production.
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The issues addressed in this study, of when and how telework contributes to personal and organizational outcomes, are likely to increase in importance as computerization and electronic communications allow more and more tasks to be conducted wherever one wishes.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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Use of machines or computers to do work without people helping
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4.6
To turn paper, photos, or sounds into computer files
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Turning information and tasks into digital form so computers can use them
Computers automatically control machines and work instead of people
How Computerized
Surface Forms
Morphology
computerization = computerize (transparent) = computer + ize + ation
Formed by the regular nominalization of the verb 'computerize' to indicate the process or result of making something computerized.
Etymology
Computerization builds on computer, a machine for 'to calculate', and the ending -ization, which means 'the process of making or becoming'. So computerization is the process of changing a job or system so a computer can do or control it.