quislingize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To corrupt by getting a significant number of members to collaborate with an enemy occupying force.
Dated
Example Sentences
- "Norway was the scene of the original Quisling experiment and because of Norway's highly perfected state form it seemed a simple matter to quislingize the Norwegian educational system."
- "It has been a consistent policy of the Nazis to choose men of no ability to quislingize the countries marked out for invasion, because whatever honesty such men may have they are too flattered by their elevation to scan assurances too closely."
- "Then, in September 1942, Quisling's cherished plans for a 'cooporative' parliament had been completely thwarted by mass resignations from the trade unions (which he had earlier taken over and 'quislingized') in protest against his decree of 10 September 1942 making membership of these unions compulsory."
- "At most a few dozen individuals, mostly with a prewar Fascist history, have quislingized"
Etymology
From quisling + -ize.