globalizev.
/ˈɡləʊbl̩ʌɪz/, /ˈɡləʊbəlʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈɡloʊbəˌlaɪz/ transitive. To make global (in various senses of the adjective). In later use: spec. (in business and financial contexts) to organize on a worldwide scale; to effect or facilitate the globalization of. Also intransitive.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > give a general character to [verb (transitive)] > make general, common, or universal
catholicize1629
universalize1748
generalize1756
globalize1937
1937 S. F. Bemis Diplomatic Hist. U.S. xxxix. 764 He believed that by this article he was globalizing the Monroe Doctrine, whereas previously he would have merely pan-Americanized it.
1944 O. L. Reiser & B. Davies Planetary Democracy ix. 173 We construct the arc of the future and form a vision of what democracy might be—we globalize the concept into a planetary civilization for all mankind.
1962 Sunday Times 28 Jan. 12/2 Our own comparatively timid intentions towards globalising the Common Market.
1985 A. R. Conn Nonlinear Programming in P. T. Boggs et al. Numerical Optimization 1984 i. 14 The standard approach to globalising the nonlinear equation methods is to use a merit function.
1989 Geografiska Annaler B. 71 48/2 Industrialization has spread into new areas of the advanced capitalist nations and is globalizing in our time at a fast rate.
1992 K. Ohmae Borderless World (new ed.) vi. 124 Leaders on horseback cannot globalize an organization. Only people linked horizontally in a network can do that.
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ˈglobalizer n.
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1964 C. Rand Cambridge, U.S.A. iii. 87 Empire-building on this scale is not found everywhere in Harvard, yet there are other globalizers here whose dreams approach it.
2002 Church Times 19 July 8/4 The first successful globalisers were the British, when the dominating institutions were the Bank of England and the Admiralty.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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