automate

Verb

Meaning

make automatic or control or operate automatically

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

automatize automatise robotize program advance boost accelerate assemble alleviate mechanize industrialize computerize computerise mechanise motorize
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Antonyms

use manual labour involve manual labour use human labour involve physical labour

Hypernyms

change alter modify

Hyponyms

semi-automatise semi-automatize

Related terms

automatic automaton automation automatize automat automatization

Examples

Machines can automate a lot of things, but design is something humans do best. Tom Peters

My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate. Daniel H. Pink

The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production. Klaus Schwab

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism. Nick Denton

If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995. Larry Page

When you automate an industry you modernize it when you automate a life you primitivize it. Eric Hoffer

Close letter words and terms

automata automatability automatable automated automated agent automated banking machine