MEANING
1. Make an arrangement consistent with a rule, recognized procedure, or legal status.
2. Add constraints or penalties to a model to reduce overfitting or unstable solutions.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- regularize employment
- regularize a procedure
On the page
The agreement regularized the workers' employment status.
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Word forms
- Base
- regularize
- Past tense
- regularized
- Past participle
- regularized
- Present participle
- regularizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- regularize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are regularizing
- Present perfect
- have/has regularized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been regularizing
- Past
- regularized
- Past continuous
- was/were regularizing
- Past perfect
- had regularized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been regularizing
- Future
- will regularize
- Future continuous
- will be regularizing
- Future perfect
- will have regularized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been regularizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: regularize; regularizes; regularized; regularized; regularizing 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: analysis, explanation, evaluation. Commonness: uncommon. Third-person singular: regularizes.
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