socialize

Meanings

Verb

• take part in social activities; interact with others
  • "He never socializes with his colleagues"
  • "The old man hates to socialize"
• train for a social environment
  • "The children must be properly socialized"
• prepare for social life
  • "Children have to be socialized in school"
• make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies
  • "Health care should be socialized!"
• To interact with others, especially personally, informally and off the clock rather than formally and officially.
• To instruct (somebody), usually subconsciously and mostly by example, in the etiquette of a society.
• To take something into collective or governmental ownership.

Synonyms

acculturate, hang out, socialise