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flexible
Adjective
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When something is flexible, it can bend.
The thin wood stick was so flexible that it would bend but not break.
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By extension, the word is used as a metaphor. For example, when a person or thing is flexible, they can change.
Jim was very flexible and enjoyed every new experience when he travelled.
I think we can make working hours much more flexible.
They used to treat everyone the same but now take a more flexible approach.
computerize
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verb
(= computerise)
provide with computers
Our office is fully computerized now
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verb
(= computerise)
store in a computer
computerized dictionary
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verb
(= cybernate, computerise)
control a function, process, or creation by a computer
They computerized the car industry
we live in a cybernated age
cybernate a factory
manufacturing
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noun
(= fabrication, manufacture)
the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals
an improvement in the manufacture of explosives
manufacturing is vital to Great Britain