customize

English

Alternative forms

• customise (chiefly British)

Etymology

From custom +‎ -ize. First attested in 1934 in American English.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌs.tə.maɪ̯z/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.tə.mɑɪ̯z/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.tə.maɪ̯z/

Verb

customize (third-person singular simple present customizes, present participle customizing, simple past and past participle customized)

1. To build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications.
   • 2023 November 2, Danielle Wiener-Bronner, “Starbucks is leaning into its sugary concoctions to boost the business”, in CNN Business‎:

     High-priced lattes and customized drinks helped lift the coffee chain’s US sales in the quarter ending on October 1, the company said Thursday.

Derived terms

• customizability
• customizable
• customizer
• recustomize
• semicustomized
• uncustomized

Related terms

• consuetude
• costumal
• costume
• custom
• customary
• customer
• customization

Translations

alter according to preferences

Armenian: հարմարեցնել (hy) (harmarecʻnel) Bulgarian: изработвам по поръчка, приспособявам според потребностите си (prisposobjavam spored potrebnostite si) Chinese: Mandarin: 定制 (zh) (dìngzhì), 定做 (zh) (dìngzuò), 客製化 / 客制化 (kèzhìhuà), 自定義 / 自定义 (zìdìngyì) Czech: přizpůsobit pf Danish: skræddersy, specialbygge Esperanto: agordi Estonian: kohandama, isiksustama Finnish: mukauttaa (fi), muuttaa toiveiden mukaiseksi, kustomoida (fi) (colloquial) Galician: personalizar German: speziell anfertigen, personalisieren (de), anpassen (de) Hungarian: testre szab (hu) Indonesian: menyesuaikan (id) Italian: customizzare (it), personalizzare (it) Japanese: カスタマイズする (kasutamaizu-suru) Lithuanian: pritaikymas individualiam vartojimui Maori: whakawhaiaro Persian: سفاریستن Polish: dostosowywać (pl) impf, personalizować impf Portuguese: personalizar (pt), customizar (pt) Russian: модифици́ровать (ru) (modificírovatʹ) (в соотве́тствии с тре́бованиями) Spanish: personalizar (es), entallar (es), customizar (es), adaptar (es), tunear (es), confeccionar a la medida, costumizar Swedish: anpassa (sv), skräddarsy (sv) Tagalog: ipasadya Yiddish: אינדיווידואַליזירן (individualizirn)

See also

• bespoke
• characterize
• differentiate
• individualize
• personalize
• tailor (verb)

Portuguese

Verb

customize

1. inflection of customizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative