verb · academic
codify
UK/ˈkəʊdɪfaɪ/US/ˈkoʊdɪfaɪ/CO·di·fy
Band 6-7task2speakingtask1
to arrange laws or rules into a systematic code
Examples
“The committee aims to codify the unwritten workplace rules.”
“Many customary practices were codified into national law.”
“Scholars try to codify best practices for public health.”
Band 8 sentence
“To reduce ambiguity, the government decided to codify long-standing customs into clear statutory provisions.”
Collocations
- codify into law
- codify rules/principles
Word family
codify verbcodification nouncodified adjective
Common mistakes
They codified all laws into book.→They codified all the laws into a book.
Say it for a higher band
5write down→6systematize→7+codify
Synonyms
systematize
Easily confused
systematize
“We need to systematize our notes before the exam.”
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