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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fractionalize .
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Examples
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The settlement also seeks to resolve an ever-growing headache of the trust system that contributed to the government's problems -- especially in the pre-computer era -- in keeping track of the allotments: the original owners, most of whom died without leaving wills, have many heirs, which has "fractionalized" the ownership interests.
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The proposed settlement also seeks to resolve an ever-growing headache created by the trust system: the original tribal members who were granted parcels of Indian land have many heirs, which has "fractionalized" the ownership interests.
NYT > Home Page 2009
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BC-STV's complicated voting system means your single vote will be "fractionalized" and distributed so that you may never know how it was counted.
Opinion 250: News 2009
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The proposed settlement also seeks to resolve an ever-growing headache created by the trust system: the original tribal members who were granted parcels of Indian land have many heirs, which has "fractionalized" the ownership interests.
NYT > Home Page 2009
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People need to know that when you put money in a bank your basically giving them a loan and that YOU the loaner deserve interest on their fractionalized banking
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Like the principles behind computers we, us, you know who I mean, are fractionalized, a small slice of a vast watermelon type culture.
Warren Adler: Our Comic Book Culture Warren Adler 2011
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But the repubs of today are not fiscally conservative and are big spenders, which is one of the reasons the party is fractionalized right now.
Think Progress » Hatch Warns Tea Party Activists: Work With The GOP…Or Else 2010
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Like the principles behind computers we, us, you know who I mean, are fractionalized, a small slice of a vast watermelon type culture.
Warren Adler: Our Comic Book Culture Warren Adler 2011
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Colonel, take some time off from jacking shells in and out of your shotgun [heh] and look up fractionalized banking then get back to us.
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People need to know that when you put money in a bank your basically giving them a loan and that YOU the loaner deserve interest on their fractionalized banking
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