Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
customize \customize\ v.
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to make to specifications.
Syn: custom-make, taylor-make.
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to make according to requirements.
Syn: customise.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1934, "to make (something) to a customer's specifications," American English, from custom (adj.) + -ize. Related: Customizable; customization; customized; customizing.
Wiktionary
vb. To alter to suit individual requirements or specifications
WordNet
v. make to specifications; "I had this desk custom-made for me" [syn: custom-make, customise, tailor-make]
make according to requirements; "customize a car" [syn: customise]
Wikipedia
Customize: modify (something) to suit a particular individual or task.
See also bespoke
Usage examples of "customize".
In addition to personal selling, customized selling will be part of your business future.
There are many companies that provide survey information, statistical research and customized data gathering.
But NSA, looking for more flexibility as well as the manipulation of great volumes of data, sent the engineers back to the drawing board for a more customized version.
For all the delight he takes in negotiating a bargain price, he will spare no expense in restoring or customizing a salvaged treasure for display in his store.
Attracted to the fields being generated by the individual pastries, independent drifting globules of the customized liqueur that Walker had lovingly hand-tailored to his own specifications proceeded to englobe each and every puff.
He dressed and called Gibby, who picked him up in his customized van and drove him downtown.
Nestled between her spread legs was a heavily customized Panasonic XC 400, the one with the multiform mushroom cushion head.
The sheer usefulness of candlenuts to humans seemed like an argument from design for a God-made world, customized to smart primates.
Technically, Winston was not a true clone, but a monstrous child teased together with micropipettes and glass bell jars and a customized mix of amino acids.
A lot of the cellphones have specially customized rings, which in a confined area with this many cellphones in play probably makes sense.
These options are pre-defined and customized by the content creators and owners.
EL-3, posing other problems in retrofitting the devices into already customized communications equipment and military gear.
Wharton and cleaned up with a string of Simulated Reality arcades all up and down the South Shore, back during the pre-Subsidized-Time Simulated Reality craze, before InterLace viewers and digital cartridges let you do your own customized Simulating right at home and the novelty wore off.
The models Ares was carrying were out-of-date: the design of the platform, already nearly a decade old, had become frozen around those customized, low-weight, low-power machines years before.
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