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Definition of "computerize" []

  • To furnish with a computer or computer system. (verb-transitive)
  • To enter, process, or store (information) in a computer or system of computers. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "computerize" in a sentence
  • "The Dems included cash in the “Stimulus” to pay doctors to computerize their records."
  • "The discovery of the mass grave in October came on the heels of a report by the Army Inspector General last summer that revealed widespread problems at the nation's premier military burial ground: unmarked and mismarked graves, millions of dollars wasted in botched contracts to computerize its paper records, and at least four urns found in a pile of excess dirt."
  • "We could be paying people to tutor kids, teach illiterate adults, take care of old people in their homes, computerize health care information (h/t MC), run food shelves and homeless shelters."