To make a process operate automatically, reducing direct human intervention.
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Words that belong together
- automate a process
- automate a check
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The team automated the routine check but retained human review of exceptions.
The process was automated only after its decision rules were specified.
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Word forms
- Base
- automate
- Past tense
- automated
- Past participle
- automated
- Present participle
- automating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- automate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are automating
- Present perfect
- have/has automated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been automating
- Past
- automated
- Past continuous
- was/were automating
- Past perfect
- had automated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been automating
- Future
- will automate
- Future continuous
- will be automating
- Future perfect
- will have automated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been automating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: automate; automates; automated; automated; automating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: automates.
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