hotelize

English

Etymology

From hotel +‎ -ize.

Verb

hotelize (third-person singular simple present hotelizes, present participle hotelizing, simple past and past participle hotelized)

1. (transitive, ergative) To make into, or similar to, a hotel.
   • 1886, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page 551:

     […] and there is nothing to be seen there except Mr. Franck's hotel, a fine old palace of the kind which hotelize so well.

   • 1937, John Willy, Hotel Monthly, volume 45, page 14:

     This, we believe was the first hospital to hotelize its rooms, and, quoting again from THE HOTEL MONTHLY (this from the issue of May 1924): "One of the great movements of today is the hotelizing of hospitals."

   • Richard Campanella, Time and Place in New Orleans: Past Geographies in the Present Day (page 107)

     The former Kolb's is now slated for renovation into a hotel, joining the modern corner structure, which was hotelized in 2000 […]