Automate Definition
 ôtə-māt 
  automated, automates, automating
  
    verb
  
 
    automated, automates, automating
  
To convert to automatic operation.
 Automate a factory.
 American Heritage 
To modernize, improve, etc. (a system, process, facility, etc.) by means of automation.
 To automate a company's payroll system, to automate a factory.
 Webster's New World 
To control or operate by automation.
 American Heritage 
To make use of or be converted to automation.
 A food service that decided to automate for greater efficiency.
 American Heritage 
Synonyms: 
  
- automatize
- automatise
Origin of Automate
- Back-formation from automation - From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition 
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