mandarinize

See also: Mandarinize

English

Etymology

Verb

mandarinize (third-person singular simple present mandarinizes, present participle mandarinizing, simple past and past participle mandarinized)

(transitive) To adapt for the use of government bureaucrats, or mandarins.
- 2012, Will Kymlicka, Kathryn Walker, Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Canada and the World, page 200:
  Kojève […] sought to depoliticize and “mandarinize” the process through economic arrangements […]