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Definition of localism in English: localismnoun ˈləʊk(ə)lɪz(ə)mˈloʊkəˌlɪzəm mass noun1Preference for one's own area or region, especially when this results in a limitation of outlook. politics have been dominated by localism and authoritarianism Example sentencesExamples - His imagination had to unlearn its intense partiality and localism; his tutor apparently assumed that already as young children we have learned narrow sectarian types of loyalty.
- Keep the spirit alive people, and localism too.
- Regionalism attracts because we perceive that the admittedly global economy mocks any preoccupation with localism and local loyalties and causes.
- From the results, we concluded that measuring ease of use, localism, editorial vigor, news quantity and interpretation can start us on the road to a measurement system that could eventually lead to defining and locating the sweet spot.
- There was also a focus on localism - Labour's growing desire to devolve the way public services are managed.
- The local labour market is influenced by localism because it fosters local preference in employment practices and denies jobs to ‘outsiders’ during periods of unemployment.
- This in itself suggests the depth of localism and regionalism and the seriousness of giving them due weight in symbolizing the nation as a whole.
- With the exception of certain, fully-gentrified areas, localism and tribalism reign, provincial and backward attitudes dominate.
- Symbolic attachment may reinforce localism or take the form of personal commitments that extend across socioeconomic strata.
- These religions were capable of transcending the intense, parochial localism of ancient and classical times, and creating wide communities that bridged many languages and cultures.
- If local dialects are unduly emphasized, localism and regionalism will become more pervasive and more serious.
- What's the point of the Government advocating localism when the district council is run by people who know nothing about Witham?
- Their much vaunted localism, as Boris explains, is merely enthusiasm for yet more bureaucracy, while their antiwar stance is about as far away from traditional liberal internationalism as you can get.
- And it is also arguable that the model is in any case valuable precisely as encouraging a move beyond the rather narrow empiricism and localism of some tendencies in current British historiography.
- One of the biggest problems for historians of this period is to balance their sensitivity towards its localism with evidence of the interplay between the locality and the regional, national, and indeed international contexts.
- I hope we can get this done and say to the FCC there's a public interest here, people are concerned about localism, competition, diverse any broadcasting and your rules move in exactly the wrong direction.
- In spite of her fervent devotion to the virtues of participatory democracy, localism and the educational imperative, the works only partially exhibited these principles.
- The pressures for uniformity may well have backfired, encouraging a stubborn and defensive localism as a result.
- What it does mean, however, is that Italy's long history of familial and corporate identity and of communal and regional localism prevailed.
- Uneven development provided a fertile ground for burgeoning localism and regionalism, leading the bureaucratic elites to defend vehemently their narrow regional interests.
- 1.1count noun A characteristic of a particular locality, such as a local idiom or custom.
her parents drilled the localisms out of her speech as a child Example sentencesExamples - She tried out one of the localisms she had heard.
- Nonetheless, the localisms introduced lingering friction in the international discourse, which has been compounded by the US not adopting ‘neo-liberal’ either, because of its own peculiar left-wing connotations of ‘liberal’.
- The appearance of localisms does not negate globalization.
Synonyms wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, style, vocabulary, terminology, expressions, turns of phrase, parlance, manner of speaking, manner of writing, way of talking, form of expression, mode of expression, usages, locutions, idiolect, choice of words, rhetoric, oratory
Derivatives adjective & noun To avoid too many losers, the local tax take will actually shrink, with even more contributed from Whitehall - which is an odd policy for a localist party. Example sentencesExamples - The real political debate is between the centralisers and the localists.
- That's right, though the Founding Fathers were always worried about localist emotions taking over a political process that they believed should be rational-legal.
- He claims, hilariously, to be against red tape and to have been ‘a localist before the phrase was invented’.
- This argument at first appears to be localist, since it's modeled after the localist argument that if you don't like local mores and laws, you can always move.
Definition of localism in US English: localismnounˈloʊkəˌlɪzəmˈlōkəˌlizəm 1Preference for one's own area or region, especially when this results in a limitation of outlook. politics have been dominated by localism and authoritarianism Example sentencesExamples - Symbolic attachment may reinforce localism or take the form of personal commitments that extend across socioeconomic strata.
- There was also a focus on localism - Labour's growing desire to devolve the way public services are managed.
- His imagination had to unlearn its intense partiality and localism; his tutor apparently assumed that already as young children we have learned narrow sectarian types of loyalty.
- Regionalism attracts because we perceive that the admittedly global economy mocks any preoccupation with localism and local loyalties and causes.
- And it is also arguable that the model is in any case valuable precisely as encouraging a move beyond the rather narrow empiricism and localism of some tendencies in current British historiography.
- Their much vaunted localism, as Boris explains, is merely enthusiasm for yet more bureaucracy, while their antiwar stance is about as far away from traditional liberal internationalism as you can get.
- These religions were capable of transcending the intense, parochial localism of ancient and classical times, and creating wide communities that bridged many languages and cultures.
- One of the biggest problems for historians of this period is to balance their sensitivity towards its localism with evidence of the interplay between the locality and the regional, national, and indeed international contexts.
- With the exception of certain, fully-gentrified areas, localism and tribalism reign, provincial and backward attitudes dominate.
- If local dialects are unduly emphasized, localism and regionalism will become more pervasive and more serious.
- The pressures for uniformity may well have backfired, encouraging a stubborn and defensive localism as a result.
- In spite of her fervent devotion to the virtues of participatory democracy, localism and the educational imperative, the works only partially exhibited these principles.
- This in itself suggests the depth of localism and regionalism and the seriousness of giving them due weight in symbolizing the nation as a whole.
- From the results, we concluded that measuring ease of use, localism, editorial vigor, news quantity and interpretation can start us on the road to a measurement system that could eventually lead to defining and locating the sweet spot.
- The local labour market is influenced by localism because it fosters local preference in employment practices and denies jobs to ‘outsiders’ during periods of unemployment.
- What it does mean, however, is that Italy's long history of familial and corporate identity and of communal and regional localism prevailed.
- Uneven development provided a fertile ground for burgeoning localism and regionalism, leading the bureaucratic elites to defend vehemently their narrow regional interests.
- Keep the spirit alive people, and localism too.
- I hope we can get this done and say to the FCC there's a public interest here, people are concerned about localism, competition, diverse any broadcasting and your rules move in exactly the wrong direction.
- What's the point of the Government advocating localism when the district council is run by people who know nothing about Witham?
- 1.1 A characteristic of a particular locality, such as a local idiom or custom.
Example sentencesExamples - Nonetheless, the localisms introduced lingering friction in the international discourse, which has been compounded by the US not adopting ‘neo-liberal’ either, because of its own peculiar left-wing connotations of ‘liberal’.
- She tried out one of the localisms she had heard.
- The appearance of localisms does not negate globalization.
Synonyms wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, style, vocabulary, terminology, expressions, turns of phrase, parlance, manner of speaking, manner of writing, way of talking, form of expression, mode of expression, usages, locutions, idiolect, choice of words, rhetoric, oratory
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