Externalize

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  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To make external.
  • transitive verb. To manifest externally.
  • transitive verb. To attribute to outside causes.
  • transitive verb. To project or attribute (inner conflicts or feelings) to external circumstances or causes.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To embody in an outward form; give shape and form to.
  • To confer the quality of externality or external reality upon; invest with actual objectivity: a word used in modern psychology to indicate a mental operation whereby, for instance, one's name arising in the mind as a subjective concept is heard as a word spoken from without, and therefore as a sense-percept.
  • Also spelled externalise.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To make external; to manifest by outward form.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make something external or objective
  • verb. To represent something abstract or intangible as material; to embody
  • verb. To attribute emotions etc to external circumstances; to project
  • verb. To direct to others, as costs or benefits.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make external or objective, or give reality to
  • verb. regard as objective
  • Word Usage
    "They're also unwittingly suffering from our economic system's lack of full-cost accounting, which has made it perfectly acceptable for companies to "externalize" their negative social and environmental impacts and shift the burdens of these impacts, financial and otherwise, to society at large."
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    alter  ascribe  assign  attribute  change  
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