"summarize"
Charles C Doyle
cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Sun Jul 22 19:01:20 UTC 2012
_summarize_ v.t. 'Convey a summary to'. (Not in the OED)
Michael Connelly, _The Fifth Witness_ (NY: Little, Brown, 2011), p. 13: The lawyer-narrator complains of a troublesome client, ". . . she had to know every move I made, see every letter I sent and be summarized on every call I received."
Presumably the construction follows the pattern of _copy_ in the sense of 'send a copy to' (OED v1:1c, from 1983).
--Charlie
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