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v. To make external.

v. To manifest externally: "Marriage is a nice way to externalize the private commitments made between you” ( Patti Davis).

v. To attribute to outside causes.

v. To project or attribute (inner conflicts or feelings) to external circumstances or causes.

v. To make something external or objective

v. To represent something abstract or intangible as material; to embody

v. To attribute emotions etc to external circumstances; to project

v. To direct to others, as costs or benefits.

v. To make external; to manifest by outward form.

To embody in an outward form; give shape and form to.

To confer the quality of externality or external reality upon; invest with actual objectivity: a word used in modern psychology to indicate a mental operation whereby, for instance, one's name arising in the mind as a subjective concept is heard as a word spoken from without, and therefore as a sense-percept.

Also spelled externalise.

v. make external or objective, or give reality to

v. regard as objective

"I would think that it was in the millions or billions of dollars - costs that the companies simply "externalize" onto the environment, and thus onto everybody else, while keeping all the "profits" - "profits" in quotes because the money made is actually stolen from everybody else."

externalized    externalizes    externalizing   

change    modify    alter    assign    impute   

visualize   

externalization   

objectify    objectize    entify