socialize

socializar, relacionarse

Pasar tiempo con otras personas, conversando y disfrutando de su compañía.

En inglés sencillo: To spend time talking and enjoying yourself with other people.

• I enjoy socializing with friends.
• We socialized after the meeting.
• Do you get many chances to socialize?

Cómo se usa: socialize with someone (She likes to socialize with her neighbours.)

Sinónimos: mix, mingle

Expresiones frecuentes: socialize with friends, socialize after work, socialize with someone

socializar

Enseñar a alguien cómo se espera que se comporte en su sociedad, a menudo mediante experiencias cotidianas.

En inglés sencillo: To teach someone how people in their society are expected to behave, often through everyday experience.

• Families help socialize children.
• She was socialized to avoid open disagreement.
• Different cultures socialize young people in different ways.

Cómo se usa: socialize someone into something (Schools socialize children into the habits of their society.); socialize someone to do something (Children are socialized to follow certain rules.)

Sinónimos: acculturate

Expresiones frecuentes: socialize children, socialize someone into, socialize someone to

socializar, colectivizar

Hacer que empresas o bienes pasen a ser propiedad del Estado o de toda la comunidad.

En inglés sencillo: To put businesses or property under the ownership of the government or the whole community.

• The party wants to socialize the banks.
• The government socialized several major industries.
• Would socializing land change how farms operate?

Sinónimos: nationalize, collectivize

Antónimos: privatize

Expresiones frecuentes: socialize industry, socialize the banks, socialize private property