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satellize, v.|ˈsætəlaɪz| [f. satellite + -ize.] 1. intr. To cluster about. rare.
1916E. V. Lucas Variety Lane 60 A little band of important men hurried up, satellizing about a quiet, gentle-looking but distinguished man. 2. trans. To make into a political or economic satellite.
1951Melbourne Herald 16 Apr., Dr. W. E. Stanner..introduced..the verb to satellise. Dr. Stanner used it when referring to other countries which, in given conditions, Russia might satellise. 1965Observer 19 Sept. 2/3 Pakistan..will not become a satellite of India; but..she will not be satellised by China either. Hence satelliˈzation, the action of making into a satellite; the condition or process of being satellized; ˈsatellized ppl. a.
1958Times 13 May 8/5 Mr Rountree, Assistant Secretary of State..told the committee:..‘Satellization of the Middle East now seems less a danger than it did a few months ago.’ 1962Economist 12 May 551/2 A small communist country which..wants to escape satellisation by China. 1968‘Han Suyin’ Birdless Summer i. iii. 56 Japan's terms were the permanent satellization of China. 1969A. G. Frank Latin Amer. (1970) i. 7 The satellized national, regional, and local metropoles in Latin America find that their economic development is at best a limited or underdeveloped development. 1976Globe & Mail (Toronto) 18 June 7/3 In spite of the somewhat unsure character of its national identity and its excessive satellization by the American economic and cultural empire, Canada-without-Quebec has enough ‘difference’ left, [etc.]. |