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to sloganize

to sloganize

1 7.3
To make something into a short catchy phrase to promote it
  • verb
  • /ˈsloʊɡəˌnaɪz/
  • US
: convertir en eslogan
  • To attract more viewers, the show sloganized its main theme as 'The Future is Now'.

Examples

  • They sloganized the charity event with the phrase 'Giving Back is the New Black'.

  • Exporters quickly became the dominant vested interest group in a society where "Everything for Export" was sloganized to represent the social consensus.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The new growth phase has ushered in institutional economic reforms, sloganized as liberalization and internationalization, that reflect the current social consensus in Taiwan.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The marketing team sloganized the campaign to make it more appealing to young consumers.

Synonyms

to rearticulate
vsto sloganize
1 6.7

To say something again in a clearer way

focuses on turning it into a simple catchy promotional phrase
to redistill
vsto sloganize
7.4

To make the main idea shorter and clearer

simplifies and makes it catchy for promotion rather than just shorter

Antonyms

to complicate
136 4.1

To make something harder to understand or do

to elaborate
82 4.2

To give more details or explain something more fully

How Simplified

to sloganize
  • US
1 7.3
to simplify
104 2.5
to summarize
  • US
87 3.0
to explain
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

sloganize infinitive
sloganized past
sloganized past participle
sloganizing present participle
sloganizes third person singular

Morphology

sloganize = slogan (transparent) = slogan + ize

Formed by the transparent verb-forming suffix '-ize' added to the familiar noun 'slogan', meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Sloganize comes from slogan, which originally meant a 'battle cry' in an old Scottish language and later came to mean a short, catchy phrase. The ending -ize means 'make', so to sloganize something is to turn it into a short, memorable phrase, making it simpler and easier to remember.