internalize
IPA: ɪntˈɝnʌɫaɪz
verb
- (transitive) To make something internal; to incorporate it in oneself.
- To process new information in one's mind.
- To refrain from expressing (a negative emotion), to one's psychological detriment; to bottle up.
- (transitive, programming) To store (a string or other structure) in a shared pool, such that subsequent items with the same value can share the same instance.
- (finance) To transfer stocks between brokers within an organization, rather than through the exchange.
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Examples of "internalize" in Sentences
- The first advocated a tax on imported oil as a way to "internalize" its security costs.
- So Beijing also needs to make drug makers "internalize" quality-management best practices.
- These divisions often use their own capital to "internalize," or trade against, customer order flow.
- One way to "internalize" some of the external costs of pollution is for the government to tax pollution.
- Thus, society must impose taxes, regulations, and penalties so that firms "internalize" these externalities -- a belief influencing many government policy decisions.
- (We need to "internalize" all countrywide externalities, natural and man-made, both short-term and long-term, as well as the global externalities that are related to the protection of global environment.)
- The loans also serve China's drive to "internalize" its annexation of Taiwan -- present the Taiwan issue as an "internal" issue of China, whereas the democracy and independence side here wants to "internationalize" the issue.
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