optionalize

To make optional; to add as an option, permit to be optionally omitted, or provide various options for implementing.

Verb

  1. To make optional; to add as an option, permit to be optionally omitted, or provide various options for implementing.
    • It seems easier to optionalize or abandon a subject altogether than to provide opportunities for small group discussion guided by faculty in the security of a laboratory type of environment. - 1968, Teacher Education -...
    • If societies can come to accept (value) and optionalize (permit) ethnolinguistic diversity, so that some can treasure it for maintenance purposes, others for enrichment, and others for transitional purposes, I am sure...
    • But I think we need to optionalize contingencies. - 2010, Charles W. Colson, God and Government, →ISBN, page 24:

Origin

From optional + -ize.

Forms

optionalizes optionalizing optionalized