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To take a situation that has been going on unofficially and make it legal or official. A government regularizes the status of workers who have no papers; a company regularizes an arrangement that started as a favour and became permanent. The key idea is that the practice came first and the paperwork is catching up. It also means making things follow one consistent rule or pattern — regularizing procedures across departments so every office does it the same way, or regularizing a so the buses run at fixed times instead of whenever. This is administrative English. You meet it in laws, contracts, and official announcements, almost never in conversation. Everyday speakers say 'make it official', 'sort out the paperwork', 'put it on a proper footing'. Knowing regularize is mostly for reading — news, forms, official letters — rather than for speaking. Spelling: British English commonly regularise; American English regularize. Both are accepted; stay consistent.
使合法化、使正規化；把既有的非正式狀況納入正軌
組成regular + -ize. The -ize ending, which travelled from Ancient Greek -ĭ́zō through Late Latin and French into English, means 'to make something have this quality'. So regularize = to make regular. Regular goes back to Latin rēgula, a straight measuring stick.
同家族的字
- regularthe base word it is made from
- regularizationthe noun for the process of doing this
- rulealso from Latin rēgula
- modernizesame -ize ending: to make modern
- legalizesame -ize ending, and a close neighbour in meaning
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
regularizeverb/ˈɹɛɡjəlɚaɪz/
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To make regular.
- Regularizing spelling was an important step in the advancement of literary society.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。