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val⋅or⋅ize

  [val-uh-rahyz]
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–verb (used with object), -ized, -iz⋅ing.
to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
Also, especially British, val⋅or⋅ise.

Origin:
1905–10; < LL valor worth (see valor ) + -ize

Related forms:
val⋅or⋅i⋅za⋅tion, noun
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val·or·ize   (vāl'ə-rīz')   
tr.v.   val·or·ized, val·or·iz·ing, val·or·iz·es

  1. To establish and maintain the price of (a commodity) by governmental action.

  2. To give or assign a value to: "The prophets valorized history" (Mircea Eliade).


[Portuguese valorizar, from valor, value, from Late Latin; see valor.]
val'or·i·za'tion (-ər-ĭ-zā'shən) n.
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