1. to make ethical or morally principled; to apply ethical standards or principles to something
Usage: transitive verb; formal or academic usage
2. to discuss or analyze something from an ethical perspective
Usage: transitive verb; academic or philosophical context

Examples

• The company sought to ethicize its supply chain by ensuring fair labor practices.
• Philosophers attempt to ethicize business decisions that affect communities.
• We need to ethicize our approach to artificial intelligence development.
• The new policy ethicizes the hiring process by removing unconscious bias.
• Scholars ethicize historical events to understand their moral dimensions.
• The organization worked to ethicize its environmental practices.