Formalize
verb
To make official or confirm it by following rules and procedures.
The company decided it was time to formalize their policies and procedures.
Often appears as...
- formalize an agreement
- formalize a relationship
verb
To shape or organize something into a system.
The software allows you to formalize your workflow into a step-by-step process.
Often appears as...
- formalize a process
- formalize a system
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Technical
verb
To give a definite or official form or character to something.
They had to formalize the contract before it was legally binding.
Often appears as...
- formalize a contract
- formalize a document
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To make official or confirm it by following rules and procedures.
The company decided it was time to formalize their policies and procedures.
Often appears as...
- formalize an agreement
- formalize a relationship
verb
To shape or organize something into a system.
The software allows you to formalize your workflow into a step-by-step process.
Often appears as...
- formalize a process
- formalize a system
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To give a definite or official form or character to something.
They had to formalize the contract before it was legally binding.
Often appears as...
- formalize a contract
- formalize a document
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Official Confirmation
Use 'formalize' when you turn informal agreements into official commitments or policies.
After our verbal agreement, we decided to formalize the deal with a written contract.
Pro Tip 2/3Procedure Required
'Formalize' involves following specific procedures or steps to make something recognized.
We need to formalize our arrangement by submitting the necessary paperwork.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoiding Ambiguity
Use 'formalize' when you want to clarify any vagueness and make sure everyone understands.
The roles of each team member were formalized to avoid any confusion.
Pro Tip 1/3Official Confirmation
Use 'formalize' when you turn informal agreements into official commitments or policies.
After our verbal agreement, we decided to formalize the deal with a written contract.
Pro Tip 2/3Procedure Required
'Formalize' involves following specific procedures or steps to make something recognized.
We need to formalize our arrangement by submitting the necessary paperwork.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoiding Ambiguity
Use 'formalize' when you want to clarify any vagueness and make sure everyone understands.
The roles of each team member were formalized to avoid any confusion.
Pro Tip 1/3Official Confirmation
Use 'formalize' when you turn informal agreements into official commitments or policies.
After our verbal agreement, we decided to formalize the deal with a written contract.
Pro Tip 2/3Procedure Required
'Formalize' involves following specific procedures or steps to make something recognized.
We need to formalize our arrangement by submitting the necessary paperwork.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoiding Ambiguity
Use 'formalize' when you want to clarify any vagueness and make sure everyone understands.
The roles of each team member were formalized to avoid any confusion.
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Dan Phillips: Creative...
I feel that expectation, and so I accommodate it, and I'm living my life according to what you expect me to do. That happens in the building industry as well. That's why all subdivisions look the same. Sometimes, we even have these formalized cultural expectations. I'll bet all your shoes match.
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Did Shakespeare write...
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What is your entrepreneur...
the audience with those interviews were able to develop a more formalized entrepreneurial aptitude test it's sort of myers-briggs of entrepreneurship or what we call e now in this test we ask a series of trade-off questions is your success driven more by your brilliance or your boldness your passion or people
Video examples
Margaret Wertheim: The...
Euclidean space, and spherical space. And they have different properties. Mathematicians like to characterize things by being formalist. You all have a sense of what a flat space is, Euclidean space is. But mathematicians formalize this in a particular way. And what they do is, they do it through the concept
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Dan Phillips: Creative...
I feel that expectation, and so I accommodate it, and I'm living my life according to what you expect me to do. That happens in the building industry as well. That's why all subdivisions look the same. Sometimes, we even have these formalized cultural expectations. I'll bet all your shoes match.
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Creative houses from...
should live my life I feel that expectation and so I accommodate it and I'm living my life according to what you expect me to do that happens in the building industry as well that's why all of our subdivisions look the same sometimes we even have these formalized
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When did humans start...
Inca couples, for example, started with a trial partnership, during which a man could send his partner home. But once a marriage was formalized, there was no getting out of it. Among the Inuit peoples, divorce was discouraged, but either spouse could demand one.
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Nicholas Christakis: How...
A. And you have an immediate appreciation that A is going to be more likely to get the thing that's spreading and to get it sooner by virtue of their structural location within the network. A, in fact, is more central, and this can be formalized mathematically.
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Did Shakespeare write...
formalized a method known as stylometry, applying this knowledge to investigate questions of literary authorship. So how does stylometry work? The idea is that each writer's style has certain characteristics that remain fairly uniform among individual works.
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Why tech needs the...
but that skill requires a far less rigorous and formalized education than it did in the past. Number two, the skills that are imperative and differentiated in a world with intuitive technology are the skills that help us to work together as humans,
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Math can help uncover...
lies in the fact that it makes you formalize, in a very rigorous way, what we think we know. We make assumptions, translate them into equations, run simulations, all to answer the In a world where my assumptions are true,
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What is Space Time? PIPE...
It entered your eye at a time and at a place right here. That's all that matters here. Is that all we're saying? Well, once you have formalized space and time and know that they're conjoined, then
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Gene Luen Yang
Chinese Writer
In my research, I learned that the Boxers' kung fu wasn't all that formalized. The vast majority of them didn't belong to some age-old martial arts tradition. They were basically poor, starving teenagers doing the best they could to figure out how to fight, relying more on their mystical beliefs than formal training.
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Margaret Atwood
Canadian Novelist
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
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Soha Ali Khan
Indian Actress
The only reason we decided to formalize it was because Kunal's parents and my mother were very keen on it and it never made a difference to me whether I am married or not and so I said, let's dress up and do it and have a nice day!
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Ethan Coen
American Director
I don't know we have a method. We show up at the office. Is that a method? That's about the extent to which it's been formalized, asystematised. We show up at the office and talk, talk a scene through.
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Kevin Young
In a long poem or a sequence of poems, you're trying to formalize your obsessions and give them a shape and a name. The key is to realize if the connections you are making are ones with resonance.
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Paul McCartney
English Singer
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
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Dan Gilroy
American Writer
When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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Richard Griffiths
English Actor
I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.
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Lorraine Toussaint
Trinidadian Actress
I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.
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Zora Neale Hurston
American Dramatist
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Gene Luen Yang
Chinese Writer
In my research, I learned that the Boxers' kung fu wasn't all that formalized. The vast majority of them didn't belong to some age-old martial arts tradition. They were basically poor, starving teenagers doing the best they could to figure out how to fight, relying more on their mystical beliefs than formal training.
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Margaret Atwood
Canadian Novelist
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
Quote examples
Soha Ali Khan
Indian Actress
The only reason we decided to formalize it was because Kunal's parents and my mother were very keen on it and it never made a difference to me whether I am married or not and so I said, let's dress up and do it and have a nice day!
Quote examples
Ethan Coen
American Director
I don't know we have a method. We show up at the office. Is that a method? That's about the extent to which it's been formalized, asystematised. We show up at the office and talk, talk a scene through.
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Kevin Young
In a long poem or a sequence of poems, you're trying to formalize your obsessions and give them a shape and a name. The key is to realize if the connections you are making are ones with resonance.
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Paul McCartney
English Singer
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
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Dan Gilroy
American Writer
When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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Richard Griffiths
English Actor
I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.
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Lorraine Toussaint
Trinidadian Actress
I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.
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Zora Neale Hurston
American Dramatist
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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