| 释义 |
Nigerianize, v.|naɪˈdʒɪərɪənaɪz|
[f. Nigerian n. and a. + -ize.]
To make Nigerian in character. Hence Niˈgerianized ppl. a.
1960Guardian 4 Nov. 10/3 The politicians..are themselves fully ‘Nigerianised’. 1966J. P. Mackintosh Nigerian Govt. & Politics iv. 175 The Eastern and Western Government were composed of men determined to Nigerianize their Public Services with the utmost speed. 1969I. F. Nicolson Administration of Nigeria ix. 251 There are several justifications for the somewhat arbitrary choice of the year 1948 as the starting point of the process of transforming alien ‘administocracy’ into the apparatus of modern, federal, parliamentary government, complete with Nigerian Ministers and ‘Nigerianized’ career public services. 1971J. S. Coleman Nigeria: Background to Nationalism iv. 103 The first major effort to Nigerianize the clergy..was made by the Church Missionary Society. |