Contemporize

Quick meaning: Contemporize is a verb meaning To bring up to date; often specifically to set a historical narrative in a modern context.

Meaning

To bring up to date; often specifically to set a historical narrative in a modern context.

More Meanings

1. (marketing) To modify, repackage, or present a well-known or traditional product or brand in a way that appeals to contemporary consumers.

Example Sentences

In the few instances where the initial description is couched in the past tense, immediate reversal occurs and the scene is contemporized by the listener.

Oscar Mayer tapped him to try to find some way to reposition bologna and other troubled meats that were declining in popularity and sales...when Drane began working on the project, his orders were to “figure out how to contemporize what we’ve got.”

Word Forms

• contemporizes
• contemporizing
• contemporized
• contemporise

Synonyms for contemporize

Depending on context, synonyms include update, adapt, synchronize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include synchronize, contemporise, modernize, update, postmodernize, recontextualize.

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