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third-person singular simple present automates, present participle automating, simple past and past participle automated
(transitive, intransitive) To replace or enhance human labor with machines. quotations examples
In the early '60's a Yoyodyne executive living near L.A. and located someplace in the corporate root-system above supervisor but below vice-president, found himself, at age 39, automated out of a job.
1966, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, page 83