democratize
verb /dɪˈmɒkrətaɪz/
/dɪˈmɑːkrətaɪz/
(British English also democratise)
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they democratize | /dɪˈmɒkrətaɪz/ /dɪˈmɑːkrətaɪz/ |
| he / she / it democratizes | /dɪˈmɒkrətaɪzɪz/ /dɪˈmɑːkrətaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple democratized | /dɪˈmɒkrətaɪzd/ /dɪˈmɑːkrətaɪzd/ |
| past participle democratized | /dɪˈmɒkrətaɪzd/ /dɪˈmɑːkrətaɪzd/ |
| -ing form democratizing | /dɪˈmɒkrətaɪzɪŋ/ /dɪˈmɑːkrətaɪzɪŋ/ |
- democratize something to make a country or an institution more democraticOxford Collocations DictionaryDemocratize is used with these nouns as the object:
- country
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French démocratiser.