itemize

• itemise

From item + -ize.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪtəmaɪz/

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itemize (third-person singular simple present itemizes, present participle itemizing, simple past and past participle itemized)

1. (ambitransitive) To state in items, or by particulars

   to itemize the cost of a railroad

   • 1986, “Begin The Begin”, in Lifes Rich Pageant, performed by R.E.M.:

     Answer me a question; I can't itemize, I can't think clearly: look to me for reason, it's not there.
     I can't even rhyme in the begin.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “itemize”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “itemize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.