CONTAINERIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does containerize mean? 

• CONTAINERIZE (verb)
  The verb CONTAINERIZE has 1 sense:

1. package in a container

  Familiarity information: CONTAINERIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTAINERIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they containerize    ... he / she / it containerizes   
Past simple: containerized   
Past participle: containerized   
-ing form: containerizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Package in a container

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

containerise; containerize

Context example:

The cargo was containerized for safe and efficient shipping

Hypernyms (to "containerize" is one way to...):

pack (arrange in a container)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))