chickenize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make (an industry or field of commerce) into a vertically and horizontally integrated industry.
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "To compete with the chicken industry, hog and cattle producers could follow the model that Moeller was slowly building for pig farms. They could chickenize."
- "Chokepoint capitalists want to chickenize everything they can, so they can control—and capture the lion's share of value from—other people's labor. Now the live music industry is being chickenized too."
Etymology
From chicken + -ize. In the business sense popularized by American journalist Christopher Leonard (author) in the context of the US poultry industry, where just a few companies control almost all aspects of chicken production, such as feed, medicines, and chicken houses. This model was later followed by other industries.