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val•or•ize
Pronunciation: (val'u-rīz"), [key]—
v.t., -ized, -iz•ing.
to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
Also, esp. Brit.,val'or•ise".Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.