villagizev.
/ˈvɪlɪdʒʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈvɪlɪˌdʒaɪz/, East African English /ˈvilidʒaiz/ 1. transitive. To cause to resemble a village; to acquire the character of a village or a village community.
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1822 R. Donald New Syst. National & Pract. Agric. 30 Set a part, th' lots of various size, For Cottages, the scites to villagize.
1992 Atlanta (Georgia) Jrnl.-Constit. 12 July j7/6 I'd actually like to see Gwinnett be villagized, meaning that the services that homeowners need would be close to where they live.
2011 Jrnl. Third World Stud. 28 42 The world is still to be ‘villagized’ i.e. experience the communality and shared love that characterizes people in a typical village setting.
2. transitive. To relocate (people) to planned villages, often compulsorily or forcibly, in an effort to exert control over previously scattered communities, or as part of a programme of collectivization of agriculture or other economic activity. Cf. villagization n.
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1954 E. H. Windley in Legislative Council Deb.: Official Rep. (Colony & Protectorate Kenya) 59 103/1 In a month's time or two months' time, every Kikuyu must be villagized.
1982 R. Yeager Tanzania iv. 64 By 1975, 70 of the population that would eventually be villagized was settled.
2016 New Business (Ethiopia) (Nexis) 30 June The ministry planned to villagize 37,473 households, but it only achieved of 8522 households in the last ten months.
Derivatives
ˈvillagized adj.
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1912 Ottumwa (Iowa) Daily Rev. 12 July 1/3 Our town is villagized to a frazzle and the council chamber has grown into a preposterous joke.
1978 I. Kaplan Tanzania iv. 201 The newly ‘villagized’ farmers were largely permitted to continue to farm.
2012 BBC Monitoring Afr. (Nexis) 31 May Energy Minister..speaking after commissioning a water project for the ‘villagized’ nomads.
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