suburbanizev.
/səˈbəːbənʌɪz/, /səˈbəːbn̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /səˈbərbəˌnaɪz/ 1. intransitive. Frequently with to. To move or relocate to the suburbs.In quot. 1848: to travel to the outlying areas of a city.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [verb (transitive)] > render suburban
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1848 G. F. Atkinson Pictures from North xvii. 283 Everybody knows Brussels... But we tell not of churches and town-halls, we will engage nags to suburbanize.
1928 N. Anderson & E. Lindeman Urban Sociol. iii. 51 The poor do not suburbanize except in small colonies near the wealthy suburbs in order to work there as household servants or toil in the industries outside the city limits.
1955 J. L. Dohr et al. Accounting & Law (ed. 2) xxviii. 614 Department stores generally have been suburbanizing to combat this loss of market.
1995 V. Symes Unemploym. in Europe viii. 148 The city lost sixty-six thousand inhabitants between 1972 and 1984, some..suburbanising to the greater Frankfurt area.
2010 Environm. & Urban Econ. (Nexis) 26 Nov. As employment has suburbanized, commute times do not go to infinity as people suburbanize.
2. transitive. To make suburban; esp. to convert into a suburban area; to make (a rural area) suburban by constructing or developing new housing, networks of roads, etc. Also intransitive: (of an area) to become suburban.
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1862 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Nov. 520/2 The Hospital, suburbanised, would also..cease to be an important medical school.
1893 C. E. Norton in Lowell's Lett. (1894) I. 2 The whole district, though so near the city, was not yet suburbanized.
1910 S. H. Heath S. Devon & Dorset Coast 145 The place to-day has a railway ‘halt’, and has ‘suburbanised’ in a way no one would have thought possible a few years ago.
1951 W. Lewis Rotting Hill ix. 295 It may be that men are less completely suburbanized, in this land, than their women.
1965 Times 26 Mar. 14/7 The road went mainly over open country and there were no new petrol filling stations which inevitably suburbanise a village environment.
2000 Daily Tel. 31 Oct. 10/6 He said the Government wanted to ‘suburbanise’ rural England.
2011 Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) (Nexis) 23 July 2 As the last part of the greater Boston area to suburbanize, the South Shore has fewer of the [psychiatric] institutions found elsewhere.
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suˈburbanized adj.
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1882 Electrician 16 Dec. 109/1 The mud-built cottage provided by jerry builders for the suburbanised British workman.
1921 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 111 The local feeling of the less suburbanised Home Counties continues to object.
2009 New Yorker (Nexis) 28 Sept. (Fact section) 26 The enchantment with a hygienic, suburbanized life took hold.
suˈburbanizing adj. and n.
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1863 N. Brit. Rev. 39 143 The suburbanizing influence of a railroad.
1906 N.Y. Times 12 Aug. 6/7 The suburbanizing of the city through improvement of communications by bridges and trolleys.
1989 R. Rodger Housing in Urban Brit. (1995) ii. 9 Population additions were increasingly housed on peripheral sites, a process assisted by transport developments for the suburbanising middle class.
2009 J. Jensen Road Trip USA: Pacific Coast Highway 130 The..Mission Inn Motel.., holding out against the relentless suburbanizing that has leveled many of the surrounding historic commercial structures.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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