EGAVE

externalize

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 0.13 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To make something external or objective.
  2. verb To represent something abstract or intangible as material; to embody.
  3. verb To attribute emotions etc to external circumstances; to project.
  4. verb To direct to others, as costs or benefits.
    Offering high-quality software as open-source externalizes benefits to a large community, but also externalizes much of the cost of testing and further development.

Similar words

exteriorize externalise project rely outsource extrinsicate delocalize depersonalize outside delocalise

Often followed by

the their and his it blame them a itself costs

Word family

external externalisation externalise externalised externalises externalising externality externalization externalized externalizes

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