"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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