regionalizationn.
/ˌriːdʒn̩əlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌriːdʒn̩l̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌriːdʒənl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌriːdʒ(ə)nəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌridʒənl̩əˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌridʒnələˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌridʒənlˌaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌridʒnəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The action or fact of making or becoming regional; esp. the action or fact of organizing on a regional basis. Also: an instance of this. Cf. regionalize v.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > centralized or regionalized systems > [noun] > regionalism or decentralization
territoriality1771
centrifugalism1844
decentralization1846
territorialization1850
provincialization1866
regionalism1871
subnationalism1881
regionalization1919
subsidiarity1936
centrifugality1957
1919 Jrnl. Nat. Instit. Soc. Sci. 5 91 We are testing regionalization under Federal control.
1938 Odum & Moore Amer. Regionalism i. ix. 216 The present regionalization of the country.
1972 Jrnl. Parasitol. 58 466/2 There is no apparent regionalization of cellular function in the gut.
1989 Times (Nexis) 8 Dec. There are pressures, too, from the community to encourage a regionalization of some parts of central and local government.
2004 Foreign Policy Sept.–Oct. 88/3 China and Japan are characterized..by their ‘ethnocentric social attitudes’, which resist EU-style regionalization.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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