ITEMIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does itemize mean? 

• ITEMIZE (verb)
  The verb ITEMIZE has 2 senses:

1. specify individually

2. place on a list of items

  Familiarity information: ITEMIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ITEMIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they itemize    ... he / she / it itemizes   
Past simple: itemized   
Past participle: itemized   
-ing form: itemizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Specify individually

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

enumerate; itemise; itemize; recite

Context example:

The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug

Hypernyms (to "itemize" is one way to...):

identify; name (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "itemize"):

list; name (give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

item (a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection)

item (an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole)

item (a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list)

item (an individual instance of a type of symbol)

item (a small part that can be considered separately from the whole)

itemization (the act of making a list of items)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Place on a list of items

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

itemise; itemize

Context example:

itemize one's tax deductions

Hypernyms (to "itemize" is one way to...):

list; number (enumerate)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

itemization (the act of making a list of items)

 Context examples 

A document containing an itemized list of debts owed for goods or services.

(Invoice, NCI Thesaurus)

She nodded and looked at him boldly, not with soft and gentle eyes like Ruth's, but with eyes that were handsome and hard, and that swept on past him to Ruth and itemized her face and dress and station.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)