Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make internal, personal, or subjective.
- transitive verb To take in and make an integral part of one's attitudes or beliefs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make internal; invest with subjectivity or with inwardness; bring into the perception of the world of thought.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Psychology) to incorporate within oneself.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make something
internal ; toincorporate it inoneself . - verb transitive, computing To store (a
string or other structure) in a shared pool, such that subsequent items with the samevalue can share the sameinstance . Often abbreviated tointern .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
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Examples
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Thus, society must impose taxes, regulations, and penalties so that firms "internalize" these externalities -- a belief influencing many government policy decisions.
Michael E. Porter: The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value Michael E. Porter 2011
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Thus, society must impose taxes, regulations, and penalties so that firms "internalize" these externalities -- a belief influencing many government policy decisions.
Michael E. Porter: The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value Michael E. Porter 2011
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Thus, society must impose taxes, regulations, and penalties so that firms "internalize" these externalities -- a belief influencing many government policy decisions.
Michael E. Porter: The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value Michael E. Porter 2011
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The first advocated a tax on imported oil as a way to "internalize" its security costs.
Mitch Daniels and the complicated relationship between conservatives and intellectuals Ezra Klein 2010
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(We need to "internalize" all countrywide externalities, natural and man-made, both short-term and long-term, as well as the global externalities that are related to the protection of global environment.)
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(We need to "internalize" all countrywide externalities, natural and man-made, both short-term and long-term, as well as the global externalities that are related to the protection of global environment.)
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These divisions often use their own capital to "internalize," or trade against, customer order flow.
Sen. Ted Kaufman: We Need a Banking System That is "Too Safe to Fail" 2010
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One way to "internalize" some of the external costs of pollution is for the government to tax pollution.
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The loans also serve China's drive to "internalize" its annexation of Taiwan -- present the Taiwan issue as an "internal" issue of China, whereas the democracy and independence side here wants to "internationalize" the issue.
Archive 2008-12-01 Michael Turton 2008
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So Beijing also needs to make drug makers "internalize" quality-management best practices.
China's Drug Dilemma 2008
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