to innovate
- verb
- /ˈɪnəˌveɪt/
- The company has embraced new technologies to innovate its product line and attract more customers.
- incentives to innovate
- invent and innovate
- ability to innovate
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Watch on YouTubeWe're embracing the necessity to lead, to innovate, to solve this problem.
- We're embracing the necessity to lead, to innovate, to solve this problem.
- People are legislating, innovating, dealing with them right now.
- It's just see what America innovates, clone it, scale it.
- We have the ability to create and innovate and do lots of things.
- Continue to plow forward and innovate with products like this.
- And the best way to innovate is price and speed.
- Sounds great, you know, let people innovate, do what they want to make money, OK.
- And I want to then bring in the next people to innovate and make it better.
- And this is there's a huge opportunity here because we innovate like no one else in the world.
- So we will have to to innovate all the time the ways we see things.
Examples
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In the current highly competitive global environment, firms must innovate simply to stand still.
Academic text (1999) -
Faculty members are encouraged to innovate in the distance education area.
Academic text (1996) -
We have the ability to create and innovate and do lots of things.
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So we will have to to innovate all the time the ways we see things.
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Without additional funding, institutions must innovate to try to reach more students with limited means.
Academic text (2015) -
In answering these questions, Burke will continue to innovate and improve.
Academic text (2013) -
We're embracing the necessity to lead, to innovate, to solve this problem.
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Firms have a greater incentive to innovate because successful products can be marketed on a worldwide basis.
Academic text (1999) -
Building capacity to create and innovate in our students is central to guaranteeing the nation's competitiveness.
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In order to stay competitive, businesses must innovate and adapt to changing market demands.
Synonyms
To create something new like an idea or product
To bring a new person, idea, or thing into a group
To make something new that did not exist before
How Innovative
Surface Forms
Morphology
innovate = in + nov + ate
The lexical parts correspond to in- + nov- + -ate (Latin-derived), so the meaning 'make new' is recoverable for learners familiar with 'innovation' or 'new', but the combining form 'nov' is not a standalone English word and the Latinate morphology may obscure the relation for many B1 learners.
Etymology
Innovate comes from Latin parts in- 'into' and novare 'make new', the same root behind the English word novel 'new'. So to innovate is to 'make something new', like new ideas, products, or ways of working.